Saturday, 24 January 2009

Year in Decimals

Today, the 24th of January respresents 6.575% of the year.

Each day is 0.274%
Eeach week is 1.92%
Each month (30day average) is 8.22%


Sunday, 18 January 2009

37 New Years

See my post of Oct 22, 2008

As the midnight hour approaches, there are 24 time zones, plus 10 half hour shifts and 3 fifteen minute shifts for a total of 37 times humanity can shriek Happy New Year as their respective second hands click from 23:59:59 to 00:00:00


Wednesday, 14 January 2009

Phi

Not Pi.

Phi is the symbol for the Golden Ratio,
or: a+b is to a as a is to b.

Arithmetically an irrational number: 1.6180339887...

Faces, Pyramids, all aesthetically pleasing.
All Golden,

Wednesday, 7 January 2009

Fibonacci Numbers under 10,000

0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233,377,610,987,1597,2584,4181,6765,etc...

Saturday, 3 January 2009

Bigger Numbers + New Bases: Base 39

If we work in base 10, then if we think of each letter as a new number,
then we have 10+26+3 (being Norwegian):
0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrsruvwxyzæøå

Hence å2=42, and 2å=?