Showing posts with label math. Show all posts
Showing posts with label math. Show all posts

Sunday, March 14, 2010

22/7

for i=1:lenght(geek)
geek(i)
disp('Happy Pi Day!')
end

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Embarrassing

In other SI news, this image depicting the nations---all 3 of them---that have not adopted the metric system is quiet saddening.

Hella Big

In a move that is either geekily awful or awfully geeky, UC Davis Physics student Austin Sendek has petitioned the powers that be behind the Systeme International d'Unites to make the prefix for 1027 officially "hella." What do I have to say about that? Noice!

Friday, June 19, 2009

Apocalypse

This is the most geektastically funny xkcd in recent memory.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Let's Just Call it 3, OK?

Happy (approximate) Pi Day, everyone!

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Square and Round

Do you find it ironic that some square numbers are also round?

Monday, March 31, 2008

What's Your Erdos Number?

I'm sure any mathematicians in the readership frequently enjoy the webcomic xkcd, but I'm confident that today's comic will be a special treat for them. (As always, be sure to hover over the image for the caption.)

Friday, March 14, 2008

3.141592653589793238462643382...

Happy Pi Day everyone! Why not celebrate by eating a pie? Be careful to pick one with the right ratio of circumference to diameter.

Monday, July 09, 2007

General Solutions Get You a 50% Tip

I know several regular readers will enjoy the latest xkcd comic.

Saturday, May 05, 2007

Graphical Multiplication

My former roommate and overlord, Masta, pointed me to this video illustrating how multidigit numbers can be multiplied graphically. I find the technique quite interesting. I'm still looking into Vedic multiplication mentioned in the title. Perhaps I'll talk more about that later.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

3.14159265358979323846264338...

Happy Pi Day, everyone! I'm sure Weird Al is partying hard.

Tuesday, March 14, 2006