July 2009
The Pi memory champion is Hiroyoki Gotu, who...
fuckyeahfacts:
(SFGate.com)
I’m sorry…i love math and everything…but he has toooooo much time on his hands!
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
fuckyeahfacts:
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This book is incredible (and incredibly long). Barry Ritholtz found an MIT class on it:
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9876543210 random math fact of the day
ohsyazana:
1 x 8 + 1 = 9 12 x 8 + 2 = 98 123 x 8 + 3 = 987 1234 x 8 +4 = 9876
And so on
zenzizenzizenzic
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wordjournal:
noun • the eighth power of a number
Wikipedia: The 16th century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde coined the term to “doeth represent the square of squares squared”. Compositionally, zenzic means “squared”, so zenzizenzizenzic means “the squared squared squared”, or algebraically, ((x2)2)2 = x8. zenzizenzizenzic has the most z’s of any recorded word in...
