Friday, January 17, 2014

Fun Facts of Math

Last week, I read somebodies blog and really enjoyed reading all of there "fun facts of math." SOOO, I decided to be a copy cat and do the same thing. I think it's always very interesting when you can apply math to life and see how it work within the world. So, here I go.

  1. π=3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510 58209 74944 59230 7816406286 20899 86280 34825 34211 70679 82148 08651 32823 ...
  2. sphere has two sides. However, there are one-sided surfaces.
  3. There are shapes of constant width other than the circle. One can even drill square holes.
  4. There are just five regular polyhedra
  5. In a group of 23 people, at least two have the same birthday with the probability greater than 1/2
  6. Everything you can do with a ruler and a compass you can do with the compass alone
  7. Among all shapes with the same perimeter a circle has the largest area.
  8. There are curves that fill a plane without holes
  9. Much as with people, there are irrational, perfect, complex numbers
  10. As in philosophy, there are transcendental numbers
  11. As in the art, there are imaginary and surreal numbers
  12. A straight line has dimension 1, a plane - 2. Fractals have mostly fractional dimension
  13. You are wrong if you think Mathematics is not fun
  14. Mathematics studies neighborhoodsgroups and free groupsringsidealsholespoles andremovable polestreesgrowth ...
  15. Mathematics also studies modelsshapescurvescardinalssimilarityconsistency,completenessspace ...
  16. Among objects of mathematical study are hereditycontinuityjumpsinfinity,infinitesimalsparadoxes...
  17. Last but not the least, Mathematics studies stabilityprojections and values, values are oftenabsolute but may also be extreme, local or global.
  18. Trigonometry aside, Mathematics comprises fields like Game TheoryBraids TheoryKnot Theory and more
  19. One is morally obligated not to do anything impossible
  20. Some numbers are square, yet others are triangular
  21. The next sentence is true but you must not believe it
  22. The previous sentence was false
  23. 12+3-4+5+67+8+9=100 and there exists at least one other representation of 100 with 9 digits in the right order and math operations in between
  24. One can cut a pie into 8 pieces with three movements
  25. Program=Algorithms+Data Structures
  26. There is something the dead eat but if the living eat it, they die.
  27. A clock never showing right time might be preferable to the one showing right time twice a day
  28. Among all shapes with the same area circle has the shortest perimeter
Obviously I copy pasted this from a website but nonetheless is is very interesting. Number 24 is crazy. I have been thinking how to do it all day. Somebody comment with how to do it!

3 comments:

  1. So I looked up #24...
    1. Cut one is horizontal, so you have half a cake (bottom) and half a cake (top) resting on it. Think of two coins stacked on top of one another.
    2. Cut two is straight down.
    3. Cut three is also straight down, and it's made cross-ways to cut two.
    Every time you cut, you half. So cut 1= 2 halves, cut 2= 4 quarters, cut three= 8 eighths.

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  2. I like both number 13 and number 24. Good job

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  3. It was good and reasonable. Like it!

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