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The number that fascinates physicists above all others
Cosmos Magazine ^
| Paul Davies
Posted on 02/20/2016 2:09:29 PM PST by MtnClimber
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To: sparklite2
Yeah, but then you have to remember where to insert the decimal place! What a bunch of useless rubbish.
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posted on
02/20/2016 3:37:13 PM PST
by
Darth Reardon
(During the Great Depression, World War I was referred to as the Great War)
To: beethovenfan
...and i^i = e^(-pi/2) I don't care if ¿Jeb? said to, I'm *still* gonna clap!
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posted on
02/20/2016 3:43:27 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: sparklite2; All
Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” entire poem is a mnemonic for pi to the first 740 places... Here are the first 80...
Poe, E.: Near a Raven. Midnights so dreary, tired and weary.
Silently pondering volumes extolling all by-now obsolete lore.
During my rather long nap-the weirdest tap!
An ominous vibrating sound disturbing my chamber’s antedoor.
‘This,’ I whispered quietly, ‘I ignore.’
Perfectly, the intellect remembers: the ghostly fires, a glittering ember.
Inflamed by lightning’s outbursts, windows cast penumbras upon this floor.
Sorrowful, as one mistreated, unhappy thoughts I heeded:
That inimitable lesson in elegance—Lenore—
Is delighting, exciting... nevermore.
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posted on
02/20/2016 3:45:47 PM PST
by
mugsaway
To: mugsaway
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posted on
02/20/2016 3:48:31 PM PST
by
mugsaway
To: mugsaway
I’ll be darned. I had no idea.
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posted on
02/20/2016 3:55:40 PM PST
by
sparklite2
( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
To: mugsaway
From your link ... the above poem is not by Poe, but is based on his poem.
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posted on
02/20/2016 3:58:08 PM PST
by
sparklite2
( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
To: sparklite2
My mistake... I misread the page... THANKS!
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posted on
02/20/2016 4:02:43 PM PST
by
mugsaway
To: sparklite2
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posted on
02/20/2016 4:02:55 PM PST
by
Aliska
("No bank is too big to fail, and no executive is too powerful to jail." HRC 1/24/16)
To: Aliska
To: beethovenfan
I haven't seen that before and it uses the Euler identity in the derivation
Fascinating
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posted on
02/20/2016 4:09:52 PM PST
by
HangnJudge
(Cthulhu for President, why vote for a lesser Evil)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
02/20/2016 4:18:46 PM PST
by
Albion Wilde
(Who can actually defeat the Democrats in 2016? -- the most important thing about all candidates.)
To: qman; MtnClimber
Is that the Fibonacci Sequence?
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posted on
02/20/2016 4:24:47 PM PST
by
Bodleian_Girl
(Fort Marcy Park - It's how Bernie gets more votes but Hilary wins the state)
To: AFreeBird
Arg. That’s supposed to be the symbol for Pi
To: qman
1.67 feet is the distance one knot travels in one second, basically.
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posted on
02/20/2016 4:56:48 PM PST
by
Hulka
To: Jonty30
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posted on
02/20/2016 4:59:26 PM PST
by
patton
("I ought to know what I'm doing, I have the best damned intelligence officer in any United States c.)
To: MtnClimber
Yes.
As I recall,
pi = 4 - 4/3 + 4/5 - 4/7 + 4/9 - 4/11....
it converges very slowly.
To: Go_Raiders
snort. Your humor wasn't lost on everyone.
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posted on
02/20/2016 5:22:13 PM PST
by
10mm
To: Go_Raiders
Actually, the chance of Planck’s Constant being what it is, is 100%. If it were any other value, no one would be around to measure it.
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posted on
02/20/2016 5:30:06 PM PST
by
10mm
To: qman
I think you are looking for Phi:
1·61803 39887 49894 84820 45868 34365 63811 77203 09179 ...
Otherwise known as the golden section...
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posted on
02/20/2016 5:35:52 PM PST
by
NonLinear
(Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
02/20/2016 6:03:33 PM PST
by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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