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NASA only uses 15 digits of pi…

January 22, 2022Weirdo

NASA only uses 15 digits of pi for calculating interplanetary travel. At 40 digits, you could calculate the circumference of a circle the size of the visible universe to an accuracy equal to the diameter of a hydrogen atom.

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In 2019 most Americans surveyed…

October 2, 2021October 2, 2021Weirdo

In 2019 most Americans surveyed thought that Arabic numerals should not be taught in schools.

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One of the most important mathematical…

May 4, 2021Weirdo

One of the most important mathematical books ever written, Principia Mathematica, needed 360 pages to prove that 1 + 1 = 2. The book itself is considered so advanced and hard to understand that it’s rarely used in academia at all.

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Shakuntala Devi from India, also known…

March 12, 2021March 12, 2021Weirdo

Shakuntala Devi from India, also known as the human computer, gave the 23rd root of a 201 digit number in 50 seconds. The answer was verified at the US Bureau of Standards by the UNIVAC 1101 computer, for which a special program had to be written to perform such a large calculation.

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The chances of you being you…

March 8, 2021Weirdo

The chances of you being you is about 1 in 10^2,685,000. To put that in perspective imagine 2,000,000 people each roll a 1 trillion sided dice and all land on the same number. That’s how rare you are.

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Christopher Havens, a convicted murderer…

August 27, 2020Weirdo

Christopher Havens, a convicted murderer solves ancient math problem in prison. Taught himself higher math and solved the age-old math puzzle of number theory involving so-called continued fractions over which Euclid has already racked his brains. He then published the journal in January 2020.

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A deceased man was considered…

March 2, 2020Weirdo

A deceased man was considered a coauthor of a 1990 math paper after he appeared in a dream to the other author to explain some of the key ideas.

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Spain’s newest submarine was…

February 26, 2020Weirdo

Spain’s newest submarine was 75+ tons heavier than expected because someone put a decimal point in the wrong place. It could go down, but might not come up again.

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A futurama episode contains…

January 31, 2020Weirdo

A Futurama episode contains a real-life mathematical theorem which was specifically made for that episode, making it the first known theorem to be created for the sole purpose of entertainment in a TV show.

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“Decimation” means “removal of a tenth”…

October 14, 2019Weirdo

“Decimation” means “removal of a tenth” in Latin, and refers to a Roman practice in which military commanders punished units for capital offenses by having soldiers execute 1 in 10 of their comrades.

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