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10 Math/Number Facts (Vol. #2)

1. Another mnemonic for remembering the first 20 decimals of pi is

           How I wish I could enumerate pi easily, since all these bullshit mnemonics prevent recalling any of pi's sequence more simply.                      (posted by abyssbrain in comment of previous post)

2. 6666 days is equal to 144 hours + 1440 hours + 14400 hours + 144000 hours.

3. One cycle of the Mayan calendar is equivalent to 5126 years. The digits 5126 begin at the 2012th decimal place of π! 

4. Metric Day is celebrated each year on October 10th.

5. 68 is the smallest composite number that can be read as a prime number when it is turned upside down.

6. 71 is the largest prime p that humans will ever discover such that 2^p doesn't contain the digit 9. 

7. Welsh government has declared March 14  as Pi Day Cymru as a way of honouring the Anglesey-born mathematician William Jones, who came up with the idea of pi in 1706.

8. Mats Bergsten of Sweden holds the world record for memorising pi while juggling, reciting 9,778 digits in 1hr 20min.

9. A poem written such that the length of each word is determined by the digits in pi is called a piem. A haiku written under those constraints is called a piku.

10. Among all shapes with the same perimeter, the circle has the largest area.

10 Quotes on Math

1. "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Alfréd Rényi

2. "Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself." - Sir Arthur Eddington

3. "Mathematics is about progress and adventure and emotion" - Cédric Villani

4. "Math is not about memorizing formulas. Math is about understanding the world." - Anonymous

5. "Mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater." - Bertrand Russell

6. "The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom." - Georg Cantor

7. "Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? What happens in the classical special case? What about the degenerate cases? Where does the proof use the hypothesis?" - Paul Halmos

8. "Wherever there is number, there is beauty." - Diadochus Proclus

9. "Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions." - Evan Esar

10. "But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius." - Marston Morse

Top 10 Pi jokes for Pi day

1. What do you get when you cut a jack o’lantern by its diameter?… Pumpkin Pi!
2. What do you get when you take green cheese and divide its circumference by its diameter?… Moon Pi.
3. What do you get when you take the sun and divide its circumference by its diameter?…Pi in the sky.
4. Mathematician: “Pi r squared” Baker:” No! Pies are round, cakes are square!
5. What do we get when we take the object and order the rim by the diameter?…Pi in the sky by and by.
6. In Alaska, where it gets very cold, pi is only 3.00. As you know, everything shrinks in the cold. They call it Eskimo pi.
7. What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice cream by its diameter?… Pi a’la mode.
8. 3.14% of Sailors are PI rates. 
9. The roundest knight at King Arthur’s was Sir Cumference… He ate too much Pi!
10. What is the official animal of Pi Day?… the PI – thon!