Tom the dancing bug TOON: Bible Math!

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[Aristus]

1. That last panel is basically 'Idiocracy'.

n/t

[LiberalArkie]

3. Maybe Idiocracy wasn't about the lowering IQ but

about the theocracy taking over.

[Bok_Tukalo]

2. Math Atheism

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[pokerfan]

4. Pi fun fact

e ^? - ? = 20. It's a good way to check if your calculator is any good.

What is "pi"?
Mathematician: Pi is the number expressing the relationship between the circumference of a circle and its diameter.
Physicist: Pi is 3.1415927 plus or minus 0.00000005
Engineer: Pi is about 3.

[Fumesucker]

5. Baker: Pi R round

[FSogol]

6. Me: Pi R Good!

[Cheviteau]

7. And cornbread R square

[hunter]

10. Before calculators...

... I remember pi was on the slide rule. In our "honors" seventh grade class we learned to use slide rules. Our teacher had a giant working slide rule.

http://www.dannychesnut.com/SlideRule/SlideRule.htm

Without the slide rule, on paper, it was 22/7. Or 355/113 for very much overly fussy work.

I don't think an engineer would say "about 3" it would be more like "a bit more than 3."

There are some really cool shortcuts for pi in the integer math often used in computer graphics and sound rendering.

It's an engineering skill to correctly dismiss the unimportant details and recognize the important details.



http://xkcd.com/217

[pokerfan]

12. yeah, you caught me

but it's fun to weird people out with that expression.

I still have several slide rules and even keep a six inch Pickett in the glove box for calculating mileage. Gets me looks at the pump.

[hunter]

16. I've kept my slide rules too.

[Lucky Luciano]

11. I think it is unknown whether e to the pi is

...Rational or not. If your equation were exact, then you would also have a proof that pi is rational which it isn't! Very nice approximation though for e to the pi - I never knew that one.

[pokerfan]

13. LOL

See post #10. Still, pi has many rational expressions but they all go to infinity as series.

[Lucky Luciano]

14. yes of course. nt

[bearssoapbox]

8. Mmmmmm. Pumpkin Pi

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Most beautiful fun pi fact

Euler's Identity:

[panader0]

15. What does it all mean?

[IDemo]

18. -

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. It relates two important numbers with the identities 1 & 0 and complex numbers

e is the base of natural logarithms and exponentiation. Pi is as we know all about circles. 1 is the identity element for multiplication (has no effect). 0 is the identity element for addition (has no effect). i is the square root of -1, which can't exist in real number space but does exist in the complex numbers.

This all relates to harmonics and many other beautiful parts of mathematics, physics, and engineering.

[hunter]

17. My training as an evolutionary biologist tells me that's a tautology...

... but it's still very pretty.