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Re: What is your favourite mathematical constant?
« Reply #15 on: May 11, 2008, 11:24:40 pm »
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1 + 1 = window. The dawn of man's grasp of mathematics . . .  and te birth of shit "dad" jokes
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^2

how quickly that small squared sign can change a number.....
and to great effect

and that is why squared is my favourite mathematical constant
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Re: What is your favourite mathematical constant?
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Quote from: Mao on May 11, 2008, 11:21:17 pm
more choices!


i e φ ∞


Uh infinity???
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Re: What is your favourite mathematical constant?
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Quote from: Mao on May 11, 2008, 11:21:17 pm
more choices!


i e φ ∞


Uh infinity???
yep, constantly infinitely large :P cant get any larger!
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WHAT ABOUT EPSILON.
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Re: What is your favourite mathematical constant?
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OMG I FORGOT!

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Re: What is your favourite mathematical constant?
« Reply #23 on: May 12, 2008, 08:45:32 pm »
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How about that c you get every time you indefinitely integrate.
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I like Omega as well.

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This one is totally hot (whatever it is called... well, I know what it is in German) -  β
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And it's got such nice curves too. :)

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Are all these constants Greek letters?
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Re: What is your favourite mathematical constant?
« Reply #28 on: May 12, 2008, 09:52:03 pm »
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Many if them are rie, though not all. The one I can think of is e - Euler's constant
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« Reply #29 on: May 12, 2008, 10:43:36 pm »
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I'm a big fan of - comes up in the infinite series version of the function.

I did once learn to one hundred places in yr12 - a friend and I had a race to see how many digits we could memorise to in two minutes - we tied  ;D
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