Pi * 1337% = 42. My mind is blown.

[SimuLord]

I love that this just became the second-most commented thread I've ever made (a thread about tits generated 384 replies and over 9,000 views---no really, it was over 9,000, that's not a joke---before a mod locked it.)

This speaks volumes about this group.

 

[Orcboyphil]

My teacher told me water doesn't conduct electricity, POKEMON LIED TO ME!!!

Its a poor conducter but it does conduct.

 

[lvl9000_woot]

Think about this. (nerd science incoming)

All materials condense when they get colder, becoming more dense and sinking. This is especially true when they change state, say from liquid to solid.

EXCEPT WATER! Ice is the ONLY thing that actually expands and floats when it freezes.

The really freaky part? If this wasn't true then life as we know it would not exist! (water frozen in winter would sink and not be thawed by the summer sun, eventually causing all water to freeze)

So just remember: you wouldn't be alive except for one tiny little middle finger to thermal dynamics.

Spoiler: This is

My god you're right!

 

[Dastardly]

The Camponotus cylindricus worker ant, when faced with ants from an enemy colony, will violently contract its abdominal muscles, causing its abdomen to EXPLODE, spraying poisonous material on the surrounding enemy.

http://news.discovery.com/animals/photo-shows-suicide-bomber-ant-self-detonating.html

Ants in general are freakishly mind-blowing.

 

[ZombiGenisis]

As any science person will tell you, sig figs matter. If we take pi as being extended the great number of places that most calculators have, it is still limited by the other number. 1337% would be 13.37, four sig figs. So when multiplying we can only have 4 sig figs, thus with understanding of scientific mathematics. pi*1337%=42.00

 

[Hiphophippo]

No way thats real.

*checks*

Holy shit...

So yeah, I guess thats my moment right there. Holy shit.

This. It's almost suspicious in how awesome it is.

 

[Jedamethis]

Wait but... whoa?
Oh god it's like that "what happened to one dollar?" thing!

My mind is going to explo

There is a prize behind one of three closed doors. You pick a door, then one of the OTHER doors you DIDN'T pick is opened, the prize is not behind it. This leaves two doors, the one you picked, and the remaining closed door. One houses the prize, one does not. You are asked if you would like to swap your selection.

Should you?

;D

ohh! does anyone remember the one about the two guys, where one always lies and one is always honest!?

Always change your selection.


Oh, and my answer for that two guys lying and honest puzzle:

"Which door leads to safety?
As soon as you tell me, you will open that door and walk through it or I will smash your teeth in."

 

[Cynical skeptic]

Yea, its 42.003093778495535598245542034447.

You can't make pi a whole number in base ten.

You can't make pi a whole number in any system except base pi...

Theres always base infinity!

 

[Borntolose]

Actually it isn't that shocking anymore, there was a thread about it a few months ago.

We need to start a cult.

 

[Borntolose]

Division by zero is possible! And it breaks reality.
Given:
a=b
a[sup]2[/sup]=ab
a[sup]2[/sup]-b[sup]2[/sup]=ab-b[sup]2[/sup]
(a+b)(a-b)=b(a-b)
(a+b)=b
a+a=a
2a=a
2=1

Hmm... nope
2a=a :a
2=0

Nope, dropping the a from both sides makes it 2=1. Since the other side doesn't have a constant, dropping the variable makes it 1. If you wrote it out, it would be 2a=1a.

Except that you can't drop the a from both sides until you prove that a does not equal zero. Which is impossible. Because it does equal zero.

Also, up above you divided by (a-b), which is zero, because a=b. You cheated.

 

[Rickyvantof]

Think about this. (nerd science incoming)

All materials condense when they get colder, becoming more dense and sinking. This is especially true when they change state, say from liquid to solid.

EXCEPT WATER! Ice is the ONLY thing that actually expands and floats when it freezes.

The really freaky part? If this wasn't true then life as we know it would not exist! (water frozen in winter would sink and not be thawed by the summer sun, eventually causing all water to freeze)

So just remember: you wouldn't be alive except for one tiny little middle finger to thermal dynamics.

Uhm...wouldn't there be a certain depth from which point up the ice will melt in the sun? Not all water would freeze up. Nonetheless it's peculiar :O

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Division by zero is possible! And it breaks reality.
Given:
a=b
a[sup]2[/sup]=ab
a[sup]2[/sup]-b[sup]2[/sup]=ab-b[sup]2[/sup]
(a+b)(a-b)=b(a-b)
(a+b)=b
a+a=a
2a=a
2=1

Hmm... nope
2a=a :a
2=0

Nope, dropping the a from both sides makes it 2=1. Since the other side doesn't have a constant, dropping the variable makes it 1. If you wrote it out, it would be 2a=1a.

Except that you can't drop the a from both sides until you prove that a does not equal zero. Which is impossible. Because it does equal zero.

Also, up above you divided by (a-b), which is zero, because a=b. You cheated.

Oh, and why's that?

Also, welcome to the joke.

 

[SimuLord]

My teacher told me water doesn't conduct electricity, POKEMON LIED TO ME!!!

Its a poor conducter but it does conduct.

I thought distilled water didn't conduct at all, and that water's conductivity was purely a result of dissolved ionic compounds (i.e. salts).

 

[manaman]

Oh yeah, On Topic ness for others.

.999... = 1

Seriously, no funky math there. .9 to infinity = 1

Look at it this way.

2/3 = .666...
1/3 = .333...

1/3 + 2/3 = 1
.333... + .666... = .999..

Or:

1/9 = .111...
9x1/9 = 1
9x.111... = .999...

Have fun with that everyone.

Wait but... whoa?
Oh god it's like that "what happened to one dollar?" thing!

My mind is going to explo

The hotel room money trick is just that a trick. Nothing happened to the dollar it is just written in a way that unrelated items seem related and lead you to believe the totals added up wrong.

.999... = 1 however isn't a trick. But makes sense when you really start to think about it.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

Infinity divided by 2 is 0 because theoretically there are infinite positive and negative numbers so the the very center is 0.

 

[Coldie]

Infinity divided by 2 is 0 because theoretically there are infinite positive and negative numbers so the the very center is 0.

Infinity divided by 2 is infinity - infinity is immune to simple manipulations. Infinity is more powerful than 2 can possibly imagine.

I find your lack of math disturbing.

 

[manaman]

My teacher told me water doesn't conduct electricity, POKEMON LIED TO ME!!!

Its a poor conducter but it does conduct.

I thought distilled water didn't conduct at all, and that water's conductivity was purely a result of dissolved ionic compounds (i.e. salts).

Deionized distilled water is not very conductive, they even call it Low Conductivity Water (LCW) and use it in special applications to cool electronics. Orcboyphil had it correct, it's a very poor conductor. However water is very good at facilitating an arc. You will actually see much longer arcs through water then you would through air. That is where most of the danger comes from.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Someone mentioned to me today that 1337% of Pi = 42. Sure enough, I ran the numbers and to two decimal places, Pi * 13.37 = 42.00.

For Discussion: Share something that when someone said it to you, you were like "really?" then you found out it was true and you were like "holy shit."

Dude, no, it makes 42.003093778495535598245542034447 silly!

That is because pi is an irrational number - a number that cannot be expressed as a fraction. Irrational numbers tend to have a way to transform into rational numbers. A real number that is not a perfect square (that is, any number that is not the result of some number squared), will result in an irrational number if you take the square root (sqrt(2) is irrational). If you multiply this irrational number by itself, the original rational number is retrieved (2). In other words, the way one transforms an irrational number into a rational one is to reverse the mathematical process that created the irrational number in the first place.

With pi, this is tricky as pi is simply the ratio of a circle's circumference to it's diameter (pi = circumference/diameter), and one of the two numbers involved in reversing the calculation is, itself, irrational. pi * 13.37 is therefore equivalent to a circle who's circumference is roughly 42.0031 units. It would be trivial to find a diameter value that will result in what appears to be exactly 42 on your average calculator (13.369015219719208204586236123291 for windows 7 calculator).

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Infinity divided by 2 is 0 because theoretically there are infinite positive and negative numbers so the the very center is 0.

Infinity divided by 2 is infinity - infinity is immune to simple manipulations. Infinity is more powerful than 2 can possibly imagine.

I find your lack of math disturbing.

That is true, however, infinity / infinity could, in fact equal 2. Indeed, infinity / infinity is equal to the set of real numbers. That means any real number provides a correct answer to the operation, making the accepted solution to the problem undefined (infinity / infinity = 2, infinity / infinity = 3, 2 != 3).

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

.999... = 1 however isn't a trick. But makes sense when you really start to think about it.

It is indeed true. If you express the value, instead as the sum of 9(.1)^n, where n ranges from 1 to infinity, you have an infinite arithmetic series. Since math at infinity is not directly possible, we can examine what happens as n approaches infinity. In this case, the limit simply approaches 1, meaning that, after the sum of this infinite series is, indeed 1.

A better way to describe it that does not involve the dark magicks of calculus uses simple algebra. Remember for a moment the fundamental theorem of Algebra: An equation of nth degree has exactly n solutions.

The series 0.999... will stand in for n.

10n = 9.999... (the trailing elapses indicates the series continues to infinity)
10n - n = 9.999... - 0.999...
9n = 9
n = 1

The fundamental theorem of algebra thus indicates that .999... is equivalent to 1 as this first degree equation must have one solution.

It should be mentioned as a caution that mathematical fallacy is commonly used in an attempt to prove silly things like 2 = 1. In many cases, the fallacy lies in a non-obvious division by zero somewhere hidden in the middle of the associated proof.