Thread: Beauty of Math!

Originally Posted by procrastination inc

The significance of these is more about our cultural propensity to use a base 10 counting system than number.

.. and the fact that we're born (usually) with hands with ten digits - hexadecimal if we were to be born with eight digits on each hand.

Originally Posted by procrastination inc

.... Ascribing the result as a fractional value of an unknown whole and applying that as a rating of the underlying meaning of the word is plainly ridiculous

... yep.... but the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" is 42, and, by alpha-numeric substitution

B+I+G + B+A+N+G = 2+9+7 + 2+1+14+7 = 42

... but it doesn't mean a thing

I must get a life ...

Cheers

Grant

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal]Duodecimal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

has some historical useage and vestiges of that left in our culture

Originally Posted by procrastination inc

Duodecimal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

has some historical useage and vestiges of that left in our culture

.... in Tasmania ?

and way out west I hear :P

Originally Posted by procrastination inc

those number pyramids look significant because they show quirks in the decimal counting system. Shift the same values to Hex, binary or octal number systems and the patterns disappear.

The significance of these is more about our cultural propensity to use a base 10 counting system than number.

The last examples are just a bit of silliness.

substituting ordered integers for letters based on their position in the alphabet and summing the result is one thing. Ascribing the result as a fractional value of and unknown whole and applying that as a rating of the underlying meaning of the word is plainly ridiculous

heres a genuine example of the magic maths

Fibonacci numbers

Fibonacci Numbers in Nature

Fibonacci is cool. I rate it up there with Pythagorus and the Golden Ratio.