Comments by "" (@zachrodan7543) on "Numberphile" channel.

  1. I love the "other numbers are available" footnote
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  2. here are my arguments for sticking with pi: 1. as matt and steve pointed out, neither is significantly better than the other. as such, how about usage outside of direct mathematical application 2. pi day, march 14th, has sort of become the most noteworthy mathematics holiday. It occurs during the meat of the school year. if we were to switch to tau, the "tau day" would be on june 28th. This is pretty much the end of the school year, at least in america. anyone who is still paying attention in class at that point would be far more concerned with studying for finals than with spending a day to celebrate the circle constant, and teachers would be more focused on helping students prepare for tests. 3. because pi sounds like pie, there is a tradition of celebrating pi day with pie. what alternative food would you suggest for celebrating tau day?
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  3. nice
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  4. 5:19 incorrect. 1/2 is a reciprical of a prime number, but it terminates after just one digit: 0.5 check your edge cases, in other words.
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  5. 2:00 so we are assuming spherical miltank? then again, with how much they love to use rollout, that might not be totally inaccurate...
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  6. took me by surprise when you added up the rows, since the sequence also appears (at least for the terms you showed the generation of) to simply be how many terms there are in the row (if you ignore the 2 at the top). I assume this pattern continues? given that the values in each row correspond to the number of digits in the next?
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  7. why not just measure everything using the planck distance as your unit? sure your lengths would be attrociously massive, but since you can't cut distance any finer than that, I think it should be accurate enough... although the uncertainty at that scale might present other problems...
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  8. here's my question: how would you make a not gate out of dominoes?
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  9. wait... it sounds like this is just looking at the results from one of the 5 theories that make up M-theory... I want to know how many possible universes M-theory as a whole allows for...
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  10. I think what we've learned here is that a coffee bean is a coffee bean, no matter if it is bean-shaped or square... on a more mathematically interesting note, is it possible to construct a unit that would have this sort of dimensional behavior, such that raising the unit to a power gave you the unit you started with? if so, what would be the geometric properties of that unit?
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  11. so, why are you simplifying the slices to cylinders for the volume, but leaving them as frustums for the surface area? couldn't you treat it as a cylinder for the surface area as well, by the same reasoning which lets us treat the slices as cylinders when calculating volume?
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  12. suggested name for the boat: the ss tetrihedra
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  13. I mean, technically, couldn't you refer (somewhat meaninglessly) to the the {3,6} tiling as an infinihedron?
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  14. although it isn't predictive, would it be possible to use it to hone in on unknown primes? in other words, how inaccurate is it likely to be for the first unknown prime?
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