Why 28 and not any other number?
In 28 Days Later, why did they select the value 28 and not any other? Is this number something special or did they just choose it randomly?
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I could not find a solid answer but I did find a good hypothesis. This is from Yahoo Answers and was put forth by a user named "methroach". Here is his/her take on the reason the number 28 was chosen:
- It just has a nice ring to it--it's an even number, and it comes out to 4 weeks, or roughly a month.
- It's a time period that is just long enough to make the level of devastation and the evacuation believable. Too early, and Jim wakes up with (possibly) some people still around. Too late, and people might question why he (and the other few survivors) aren't dead. The timing is important; the first scene when he's walking around the empty streets is effective and creepy.
Also, how long can one stay in a coma without being attended to, before problems arise?
Here is the link to the Yahoo Answers page.
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Why is 28 a special number?
It is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1, 2, 4, 7, and 14. Twenty-eight is the second perfect number - it's the sum of its divisors: 1+2+4+7+14. As a perfect number, it is related to the Mersenne prime 7, since 2(23 \u2212 1) = 28. The next perfect number is 496, the previous being 6.Is 28 a natural number?
The natural numbers from 1 to 100 are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, ...Is 28 a whole number?
The first 100 whole numbers are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25,26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, ...What is the first perfect number?
perfect number, a positive integer that is equal to the sum of its proper divisors. The smallest perfect number is 6, which is the sum of 1, 2, and 3. Other perfect numbers are 28, 496, and 8,128. The discovery of such numbers is lost in prehistory.28 ANGEL NUMBER - Lucky or Unlucky?
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