Nerdiest fact, question or answer you can think of.

[Angryman101]

The writing on the edge of a £2 Coin says 'Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants'

I have never seen a £2 coin but I assume it comes from a quote of Sir Isaac Newton as he said: "If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants." Is that right?

The fact that it was a quote from Sir Isaac Newton (my favorite mathematician) would make sense due to another piece of insightful nerd trivia: he was in charge of the imperial Mint of Britain, which meant he was in charge of calculating how much money should be printed every year for the English empire (UK, the New World, and English holdings in Asia.).
This comes from a small biography on the man I read many years ago, so I think some of my details may be off.

 

[damselgaming]

It's not DARK Vader, it's DARTH Vader.

In the spirit of this and my very un-intelligent friend...

It's not a lightSAVER, it's a lightSABRE.

 

[Ferinus Goo]

I'll start.

What was the average Kill/Death Ratio of the 300 Spartans?

Obviously the deaths will be 1 but what about the kills?

Now present nerdy facts, questions and answers to other's nerdy questions (if you got them).

it wasnt just 300 spartans, it was 300 spartans and 10,000 greeks

It's not a question of how many people were there, in a kill death ratio unless you can respawn you're only going to have 1 death in your Kill Death ratio.. You're all such geeks you've all forgotten you can only die ONCE in RL
The real question is how many persians were there?

 

[andrat]

42

Well that's kind of a trap because if you know the answer is 42 that makes you a nerd....damn it i'm a nerd lol

OP: Han Solo says "it's the ship that made the kessle run in less than 12 parsects" Parsects are a measure of distance, however, this DOES make sence.
The Kessle Run is a series of black holes, because the closer you get to a black hole, the more the gravitational pull, so the faster your ship, the closer you can get to the black holes.
Therfore making it in 12 parsects means the ship is so fast, he can travel within twelve parsects of a black hole, and not get sucked in.

...you're welcome...

Jeeze. Now this makes sense.

is that sarcasim or are you being serious?

Serious. I never knew why he said that before.

 

[theklng]

quantum entanglement states that any subatomic particle A is paired up with an arbitrary subatomic particle B in reverse. when A goes up, B goes down and vice versa. by exploiting this, along with bohr's discovery of non-neutrality in observation, teleportation is theoretically possible.

9 is the "universal number" and often seen as powerful or mystical.

Multiple 9 by any other number, and the individual digits of the result can be broken down again and again to return the number 9.

E.g.
9*4518 = 40662 4+0+6+6+2 = 18 1+8 = 9
9*89723 = 807507 8+0+7+5+0+7 = 27 2+7 = 9

you can do the same with any single digit integer multiplum.

 

[Dr. UBAR]

42

Now divide that by zero...

Nullity, apparently http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/British_computer_scientist%27s_new_%22nullity%22_idea_provokes_reaction_from_mathematicians
Yeah, I can divide by zero, what of it? It is part of the complex number plane though, and is widely called "bullshit".

Off topic I have a beef with 42, the brilliance of that is the question which was 6*9 or something similar. The point was that even though you had a rule, the universe would always break it; the universe is undefinable. Similar to the idea that if someone discovered what the universe was for it would change and become even more comprehensible.

I think that much.

 

[SpAc3man]

there are only 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that dont

 

[Dangerous Steve]

Jean-Claude Van Damme was originally cast as the Predator.

 

[SpAc3man]

42

Now divide that by zero...

Nullity, apparently http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/British_computer_scientist%27s_new_%22nullity%22_idea_provokes_reaction_from_mathematicians
Yeah, I can divide by zero, what of it? It is part of the complex number plane though, and is widely called "bullshit".

Off topic I have a beef with 42, the brilliance of that is the question which was 6*9 or something similar. The point was that even though you had a rule, the universe would always break it; the universe is undefinable. Similar to the idea that if someone discovered what the universe was for it would change and become even more comprehensible.

I think that much.

if you look at dividing by 0 from the point of view that the smaller and smaller the divisor of a division problem, the larger the solution becomes, you get a much more sensible answer.

eg: divide by 10 and the solution is 1 tenth of the original, divide by 0.1 and the solution is 10 times larger.

following this pattern suggests the solution of dividing by 0 is infinity, this is put into a real life situation with super conductors. If a conductor has 0 resistance it can have an electrical current flow through it indefinitely with no power supply

V = I*R
R = 0
I = V/0
therefore "I" must equal infinity! ahh the joys of physics!

 

[Uncompetative]

Spoiler: Q: Who says whose pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking, where are they and when?

A: Spock says this of Khan as they pursue each other in the Mutara Nebula, at Stardate 8131.6 in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

 

[Pingieking]

Corn is not any single crop. It is actually a term used to denote the most common cereal crop in any one region (maize in North America, wheat in Germany...).

Ludviw Boltzman has his famous equation S = klogW inscribed on his tombstone in Vienna. S is entropy, k is the Boltzman constant, and W is Wahrscheinlichkeit, a type of probability.

At the beginning of the Ming dynasty (1450 or so), China was capable of fielding armies close to a million men, with a sizable portion of them armed with advanced (fot the time period) firearms.

 

[xplay3r]

42

Well that's kind of a trap because if you know the answer is 42 that makes you a nerd....damn it i'm a nerd lol

OP: Han Solo says "it's the ship that made the kessle run in less than 12 parsects" Parsects are a measure of distance, however, this DOES make sence.
The Kessle Run is a series of black holes, because the closer you get to a black hole, the more the gravitational pull, so the faster your ship, the closer you can get to the black holes.
Therfore making it in 12 parsects means the ship is so fast, he can travel within twelve parsects of a black hole, and not get sucked in.

...you're welcome...

Jeeze. Now this makes sense.

is that sarcasim or are you being serious?

Serious. I never knew why he said that before.

*a star with a rainbow behind it apears above my head*
The more you know, the more you can help.
Spread the nerdiness. We could all use it.
lol

 

[Spacelord]

Muk = ???

I lol'd. XD

 

[Ranooth]

Pi is equal to 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679....

 

[Downfall89]

pi, 3.14 = pie backwards.

*cough*
ArctiUNO
ZapDOS
MolTRES

Ekans = Snake
Arbok = Kobra
Muk = ???

KuM? hahah. Couldn't help myself xD

 

[gilesguy]

6 times 9 in base 13 is 42.

 

[TheBarefootBandit]

pi, 3.14 = pie backwards.

That is gold.