Hey man, I didn't say it was original with me, just that it was cool! Do you recognize this: 142857. (Hint: probably too low brow for a Cal Techie.)
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Robert Bernecky <berne...@snakeisland.com>wrote: > The pi*10^7 seconds stuff was a standard back-of-the-envelope > estimate at Caltech in 1964. [And likely much earlier...] > > Bob > > On 13-05-01 01:05 PM, Roger Hui wrote: > >> Très cool. https://xkcd.com/1047/ says that 75^4 is approximately the >> number of seconds in a year. >> >> y=: */ 365.2425 24 60 60 >> y >> 3.1557e7 >> 75^4 >> 3.16406e7 >> o. 1e7 >> 3.14159e7 >> >> y %~ 75^4 >> 1.00265 >> y %~ o. 1e7 >> 0.995531 >> >> So it's not quite as good an estimate, but to say "there are approximately >> π times 1e7 seconds in a year", how cool is that? >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Raul Miller<rauldmil...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> This looks like fun: >>> >>> http://www.johndcook.com/blog/**2013/04/30/recognizing-**numbers/<http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/04/30/recognizing-numbers/> >>> >>> And perhaps interesting to implement something similar in J (perhaps >>> based on an enumeration of J's constant language). >>> >>> -- >>> Raul >>> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >>> ---------- >>> For information about J forums see >>> http://www.jsoftware.com/**forums.htm<http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm> >>> >>> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >> ---------- >> For information about J forums see >> http://www.jsoftware.com/**forums.htm<http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm> >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
