Comments on: Ironic, Sans poll

By: Troglodyte

Troglodyte — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:38:24 +0000

I voted for Fibonacci, because it’s awesomely elegant, but I wish 0 had been on that poll– not as 0, but as e^(i*pi) – 1. Talk about elegant; it’s one formula that joins the 5 most important numbers in math.

Although serious business– e should have been on there instead of i!

By: earthandbeyond

earthandbeyond — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:10:56 +0000

I chose i. The only reason is how much I had to deal with i in my many university calculus classes.

I was hoping for 0118 999 881 999 119 725….3.

By: Tara Dresbach

Tara Dresbach — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:08:37 +0000

Fibonacci sequence here, although I was tempted by both i and pi.

By: carr2d2

carr2d2 — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:22:31 +0000

i went for fibonacci as well. somebody up there in a previous comment mentioned music based on the sequence. another on of these is the song “lateralus” by tool. http://lyricwiki.org/Tool:Lateralus/Fibonacci

good geeky stuff

By: The Yorkshire Sceptic

The Yorkshire Sceptic — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:02:20 +0000

I avoided the totally obvious and went straight for i.
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By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:57:12 +0000

I chose 42, but 10.4 should have been there*.

*Number of bases per turn of helix in B-DNA.

By: Olaf

Olaf — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:40:19 +0000

I went for i, since adding a single number to your real line gives you a whole new field which is algebraically complete! That’s actually kinda surprising if you think about it a little. Plus complex numbers are so invaluable in so many areas of mathematics and science.

Pi is nice, but 3.14 is less exciting.

I’m a bit annoyed that I sat trying to look for the interesting pattern in the sequence that turned out to be the Lost numbers: I assumed it would be something almost-obvious and interesting. I suppose the other literary references should have tipped me off.

By: Unspeakably Violent Jack

Unspeakably Violent Jack — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:38:39 +0000

I picked 24601 beecause it’s Sideshow Bob’s prisoner number!
*Hangs head in shame*

By: Brian G

Brian G — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:56:16 +0000

I picked the answer to life, the universe and everything.

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:37:10 +0000

42, did not look further than that…. I will never know if 255 was there

By: Tim G

Tim G — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:30:47 +0000

Perhaps its a good thing that 420 isn’t there.

By: Crudely Wrott

Crudely Wrott — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:40:48 +0000

I chose i while failing to imagine why 137 was absent from the list. That’s OK. The answer will become apparent later.

By: Crudely Wrottc

Crudely Wrottc — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:39:20 +0000

I chose i while failing to imagine why 137 was absent. That’s OK. The answer will become apparent later.

By: zandperl

zandperl — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:59:38 +0000

I wanted to vote for e (2.718281828459045…)

By: mln84

mln84 — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:42:09 +0000

Another 42.

I loved this (from above):

Punkinpi said: “I love i.”

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:23:58 +0000

I was quite torn with many of these choices. 3.14, fibonacci, or i suggest a level of nerdiness (which I have certainly attained), but in the end I had to go with 42. It is, after all, THE ANSWER.

By: Jeffersonian

Jeffersonian — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:07:34 +0000

i
logical in this context and all-encompassing

By: yy2bggggs

yy2bggggs — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:35:24 +0000

i, of course. It reminds me of linear algebra. And abstract algebras, and vectors in general, mathematical spaces–quaternions and octonions and such (which spin into game programming and the like). And physics. And electronics.

By: Yoeman

Yoeman — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:26:00 +0000

I picked pi, and got an “Internal Server Error”, figures.

By: MarkH

MarkH — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:20:21 +0000

i 2 chose fibonacci.
but only because −459.67 was not mentioned….. mmmmm vodka.. oh wait

By: Shane Killian

Shane Killian — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:04:34 +0000

For those of you who think you picked pi, you didn’t. 3.14 is not pi. Now, if there’d been the ellipsis at the end, you would have. It’s the only thing that ruined their math geek cred for me…

Some other numbers that could have been included:

32767 (yes, I’m a geek)
1541 (for my fellow Commodore homies)
1.618… (could there be a more perfect number?)
25101415 (two references for this)
7438000WHI12127272911E8EX4111209115 (let’s see who gets that one!)
(Someone beat me to Avagadro’s number)

By: PJE

PJE — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:44:15 +0000

@Jose

Heh..is the normal temperature now 98.2? I’ve not heard that before! When did that happen?

Pete

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:59:26 +0000

I would have picked pi, but 3.14 is not pi, but a very poor approximation. Thought about picking i, but didn’t like the idea of picking an imaginary number, so I went with HHGttG and picked 42 since it is the answer to life, the Universe and everything.

Jim.

By: dre

dre — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:59:17 +0000

What is this Orwell nonsense? 1984 is on the list because it’s a bitchin album! Hot for Teacher? YES.

By: Jewel

Jewel — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:31:52 +0000

I’m a big fan of 42, personally.