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Sunday, April 30, 2006
10:54:00 AM EDT
Hearing Re: Your Brains -- Jonathan Coulton
Like numbers? You'll enjoy this page, which provides you fascinating information about just about any number you'd care to know about, from the square root of negative one forward to 500, and it doesn't skimp on things like Pi, Phi and the occasional fraction. Just the sort of numerical fun you've been wanting to have.
So, what's your favorite number? Mine is the one which is the smallest number of integer-sided rectangles that tile a rectangle so that no 2 rectangles share a common length.
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10:54:00 AM EDT
Hearing Re: Your Brains -- Jonathan Coulton
Count This
Like numbers? You'll enjoy this page, which provides you fascinating information about just about any number you'd care to know about, from the square root of negative one forward to 500, and it doesn't skimp on things like Pi, Phi and the occasional fraction. Just the sort of numerical fun you've been wanting to have.
So, what's your favorite number? Mine is the one which is the smallest number of integer-sided rectangles that tile a rectangle so that no 2 rectangles share a common length.
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This entry has 5 comments: (Add your own)
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My number is e (2.7.....). It rules the world man, even better then Pi!!!
Sara -
You're making my brain bleed.
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Now why is it I want to know this????
Will it help me impress the dates? Bah ha ha!
Will it help me get the men in my life to put down the toliet seat? Right!
Will it help me remember what I went into this room for? Ugh!
Will it help me get less frustrated with the person going 40 mph on a 65....no lie last week in the left lane! UGH!
Will it help me grade my papers faster? PLEASE ANSWER YES!
Will it help me get rid of all this rain we are scheduled to have this week? We get it, we get it...it is Spring!
Will it help me find the socks that escaped my dryer?
Oh man the missing potential! -
Way too geeky for me. I started at the square root of negative one, and didn't get any farther.
The minute you said "square root of -1" I wondered. I learned that any two negative numbers multiplied together always have a positive outcome. Likewise, the product of any two positive numbers is always positive. Since the square root of a number is defined as the number which, when squared, gives the original number, and any negative or positive number, when squared must give a positive result, there can be no solution to the square root of -1. I don't see why any further mathematical proof is necessary, nor did I understand what the hell they were talking about on that web page. It seemed like a whole lot of abstract thinking to come to the place we started off.
-Paul
http://journals.aol.ca/plittle/AuroraWalkingVacation/
5/1/06 10:09 AM
Possibly. Exercising the brain helps its overall performance. Or so they tell me at the brain gym.
-Paul
http://journals.aol.ca/plittl