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Monday for Math Lovers – Rational vs Irrational

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Meg

The tiger should be played by the irrational number, and Pi played by the rational number.  And yet, Pi is the irrational number, and the square root of negative one is rational, but only because it is imaginary.  So who … Continue reading →

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Monday for Math Lovers – Uplifting Equation

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Meg

This is probably not what Einstein had in mind when he theorized about antigravity, but it looks good on paper.

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Monday for Math Lovers – One in a Billion!

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Meg

As special as special can be!  Happy, Happy, Happy Day!!!

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Monday for Math Lovers – Einstein on the Boat

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Meg

“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.”  – A sign hanging in Albert Einstein’s office at Princeton.

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Monday for Math Lovers – The Volume of a Cylinder

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Meg

A simple formula makes for a full raft.

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Monday for Math Lovers – Solving for g

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Meg

Monday getting you down?  At least now you know how much – pi squared equals gravity!  

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Monday for Math Lovers – 9-9

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Meg

In which we find Richard Feynman entertaining Pi with a recitation of the digits of pi through the 762 decimal, arriving at the Feynman Point.

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Monday for Math Lovers – The ocean goes Plouffe!

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Meg

The Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula is an amazing way to calculate individual digits of Pi, with out having to go through all the billions and billions of digits.

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Monday for Math Lovers – Mandelbrot at Dawn

Posted on August 5, 2013 by Meg

The Mandelbrot set is mathematical set of points whose boundary is a distinctive two dimensional fractal shape, and strangely, related to Pi.

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Monday for Math Lovers – July 22, 1972

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Meg

Tiger, you are One in 14,014,624!

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