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For those confused by this, here is the Mitchell and Webb "Numberwang" sketch

https://youtu.be/0obMRztklqU?is=qufDLUkqofpr-K1Y

And that's a bad miss...
My favorite line, especially as an American because I can say it out loud without the person getting upset since they have no frame of reference. And other Anglophiles I could probably handle.
The idea that the snooker commentators are probably drinking is very Britain, and especially Britain from a particular era.

I think that series came out slightly after that era ended, I remember as a child (so years earlier) realising that snooker players at the time were often tipsy if not actually drunk, and also darts players, but by the time I was an adult the professionalism really changed that, turns out that if you're very good you probably are better at snooker when sober. I think the commentators, being often a previous generation of players, lagged that slightly.

"Are we the baddies?"

"WATCH THE FOOTBALL! WATCH IT! IT'S GONNA MOVE!!"

"This tree smells like cum."

Mitchell and Webb had so many legendary lines.

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Featuring Academy Award winner Olivia Colman!
I don't think that this produces correct results, as it seems to determine whether each individual number is Numberwang. However, whether a number is Numberwang can also depend on the previous numbers in the sequence or other factors.

So I think as it stands right now this model can only determine whether a number would be Numberwang as the first number of a sequence, but even for that I still wouldn't rely on this in the actual game show.

I'm also not sure that we know a non-number can never be Numberwang.
Hello I have a question, and my question is what the fuck
That's not even a number.
In some bases it is. Numberwang!

With All Due Love,

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar, Esq.

[delayed]
I AM COLOSSON I AM NUMBERWANG THE WORLD IS NUMBERWANG THEREFORE I AM THE WORLD
Amazing, I passed by Mornington Crescent only yesterday!
I happened to be born at the right time for Mornington Crescent to be temporarily closed in the exact window when I was travelling to London often, using the Tube on my own, and listening to ISIHAC and so for a while I assumed the joke was that it'll never open - and then one day of course it re-opened.