Posted on 06/28/2011 7:09:39 PM PDT by decimon
Will you still need me
Will you still feed me
When I’m hex four zero ?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Didn’t Newton devote the rest of his life to Biblical studies?
At least the Greek word pe’rime’tros began with the letter pi. Has this fellow bothered to look up any relevant Greek words that begin with tau?
All fun and games aside, I have noticed a tendency to make mathematics and science as counterintuitive and overcomplicated as possible, rather than explain things simply, For a culture whose very navigation is based on degrees, radians would be an unnecessary complexity.
LoL.....
But how will you know for sure that is really IS the last
stick if you continue to wallow in your pathetic obsolete
mathematical swamp?
I propose a new unit called the dolt. 1 dolt equals 28 kilobidens. 1 square biden equals 1 obamadon. 1 obamadon equals 10^-8 erg-pelosi.
But only if you Kerry the Zero.
After Newton left Cambridge and moved to London, he did spend a lot of time on theology. He also spent a lot of time on alchemy. He wanted to turn lead into gold. As Director of the Mint for the English crown, it was Newton's job to look after the government's gold. In that job, turing lead into gold would have been a neat trick.
Plus they were a constant.
I thought it was 1 Biden = 28 Kilodolts.
I’m such a geek, I used to test my calculator’s capacity by making it figure out factorials. The highest it would go was 69 factorial. When I got my first computer, I would test how high it could figure them. I would type in 1000 factorial. It would begin the calculation, then a minute later pop up and say: “this calculation will take time, do you want to continue?” of course I said yes. I was so bored one day at work I figured out just how high it would go. Somewhere around 5000 IIRC. And it took a looong time. I don’t remember the result, but it was 10 to the some unimaginable power.
Once you get used to radians, degrees are unwieldy. I'm filing this story with all those metric-vs-imperial articles. It's a bit silly and has the same flavor. Metric is for idiots who freak out when they have to divide by 12. They can't do it without making a mistake. You should never give such people calculators or the metric system. They need to drill and practice, practice, practice their arithmetic.
What say you, Ultra? You’re the Math Master here...
As defined, Tau = 2 * Pi
Likewise, Pi = Tau / 2
In the end, it really doesn’t make a difference in terms of calculations.
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