Just a note that today is Stephen Hawking's birthday and also Galileo's death day.
Galileo Galilei
Born: Feb 15th, 1564 (Pisa)
Died: Jan 8th, 1642 (Arcetri)
Stephen William Hawking
Born: Jan 8th, 1942 (Oxford)
Died: Should have died five decades ago.
Hawking's birth occurred on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death!
Hawking says, "Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science."
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Want to lose 10 pounds within two months? All you have to do is the math!!
My simple 5 step program is flawless I tell ya, FLAWLESS!
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Doing a school project on mathematicians? Don't pick Einstein like your mom would... pick one from the following list instead. Then google their name + wikipedia, and tada, instant math project done!
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In this post we learn all about the math behind low riding pants and how cool it really is.
I decided to do a study just to see what the relationship was. I interviewed 13,532 people and showed them each 6 pictures of people wearing low riding pants. I then asked them to select a "COOLNESS FACTOR" for each picture.
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In this post I will teach you how to count using only your fingers! That's right boys and girls!!
Disclaimer: I first have to apologize to those people who have lost their hands (or some fingers), but this will still apply to you (however, you won't be able to count as high). Now if you have no hands but are good with putting your toes up and down then this will also work. If you have no hands and no feet... then ask a friend to help you. If your friend has no fingers and no toes, then ask one who DOES to help you. If you have no friends that have fingers or toes, then... monkey sticks >_>
Method 1 (Traditional Method):
Yup, you guessed it!
one finger = 1
two fingers = 2
three fingers = 3
...
nine fingers = 9
ten fingers = 10
Amazing!
But did you know you can count to 10 using only one hand? The chinese
are WAYYYY ahead of us (north americans) when it comes to counting.
This takes us to method 2.
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Do you know when to get married?
When you meet someone, how do you know you won't find someone better? Love aside, let's look at this from a mathematical viewpoint.
Suppose you are a guy, and are interested in say... girls. Let's say over the course of your life you meet 100 girls and each girl is ranked by how good of a mate she would be with you. The obvious solution is to just meet each of the 100 girls and pick the one that is ranked the highest. BUT... by the time you met all 100, you will be an old geezer and on your death bed. So what is one to do?
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The Fibonacci sequence:
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, ...
can be used to convert miles to kilometers (and vice versa). For example, to find how many km 5 miles is, take the next Fibonacci number which happens to be 8. Thus, 5 miles is approximately 8 km. Similarly, 8 miles is approximately 13 km, and so on.
This works because the growth rate of the Fibonacci numbers converges to the golden ratio (approx 1.618) which happens to be very close the km/mile conversion (1 mile = 1.609 km).
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Using prime numbers, you can amaze your friends with a prime prediction...
1. Ask your friends to pick any prime number greater than 3.
2. Square it.
3. Add 14.
4. Divide by 12.
Without knowing which prime number your friends picked, you can still tell them:
There will be a remainder of 3.
But HOW does it work?
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