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=?

Wednesday, 10 December 2008

Thursday, 6 November 2008

Ludolph's number by any other name

would be circular constant, Archimedes' constant, or, of course: π

Tuesday, 4 November 2008

Pi is irrational

Because π is an irrational number, its decimal expansion never ends and does not repeat. This infinite sequence of digits has fascinated mathematicians and laymen alike, and much effort over the last few centuries has been put into computing more digits and investigating the number's properties.[15] Despite much analytical work, and supercomputer calculations that have determined over 1 trillion digits of π, no simple pattern in the digits has ever been foun

Monday, 3 November 2008

Pi: 2

Pi in Binary: 11.00100100001111110110…
Pi in Hexadecimal: 3.243F6A8885A308D31319…

Sunday, 2 November 2008

Pi to Fifty

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510

Number Distribution
0: 2
1: 5
2: 5
3: 8
4: 4
5: 5
6: 4
7: 4
8: 5
9: 8