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.