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Outside a Micro Center in central Ohio, on a nice lookin' Tesla, I saw the plate FSM 1337. I was convinced this was the geekiest geek around these parts, and when the guy walked up to the car to get in, I said "nice plate!". He had no idea what I was talking about. Zero. I had to explain the whole thing, and though I initially thought he was just pulling my leg, I then thought about it and realized that Ohio plates as given are three letters followed by four numbers. What are the chances???



This could happen in Georgia as well, which has the same license plate format. I'd like the plate CAB 1729, after the story Hardy told about Ramanujan. (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Hardy-RamanujanNumber.html) but I suspect that either someone out there already has it and doesn't know of its significance, or that they don't give out plates starting with CAB.


Uh, to what does "FSM 1337" refer?


"Flying Spaghetti Monster", and '1337' is leet-speak for, well, 'leet'. Aka 'elite'.




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