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numbers are awesome

Numbers are awesome. The concept of zero fascinates me, phi and pi are as beautiful as they are complex, and even though e and i are way beyond my level of understanding, I still love and respect them all. I frequently wish that I'd had teachers over the course of my life who made math interesting and relevant to real life, instead of something that we just had to learn because it was on the test.

I bring all these neat-o numbers up because I have a new favorite number string, that I wanted to share with you all today:

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

Pretty majestic, ain't it? Yeah, numbers are awesome.

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Every student needs a Carl Sagan style teacher.

Yes, certainly a key number.

a beautiful number set indeed, i quake with the adoration i have for you and your fearless number love. I'd give you my keys any day.


Wonderful. Beautiful. Devious. ;)

I hope you picked up some nice things for Mrs. Wheaton as well.

The most mind-boggling thing I ever learned in school is that

e ^ (i * (pi)) = -1

Haha thats great. I am in 11th grade right now and my math teacher makes everything fun. I guess that is why I have had straight A's in Algebra 2 Honors all year. I love math! Its my favorite subject!! :)

This means something. This is important.

Wil, don't be a pirate. People who decode HD DVDs are pirates. Pirates are bad. You are bad. Don't be bad.

(in my best Princes Leia voice) "Aren't you a little short to be a public key?"
Only things I could tell at a glance were:
It's hexadecimal.
It's garbage if translated to ASCII.
So... is it a key, as others are guessing? Looks too short to me. Give a clue, you crypto fiend!

Wolfger, just copy-paste the magic number into Google.

And in the meantime, YARR!

I personally like 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42.

"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine." What's so majestic about that?

e and i are beyond your level of understanding? How shameful. :-)

"Old man Euler had some numbers, e i e i 0 ...."

Looks like the fingerprint to a new GPG key...maybe a new project for Our Wil? That would be kick-awesome...

wait a minute...(Googles)

Ohhhhhhh. Yeah, that is pretty darn ironic, don't'cha think? :-)

Jonathan: Yes, Euler's Identity is a thing of exquisite beauty. The first time my mind actually made the connections as to why it is true was mathematical heaven.

As far as the hex string Wil posted, all I can say is HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - and it's inevitable.

Could this be the end of "stupid, time-consuming, not-the-movie bullshit?"

Wired has a nice little snippet about someone who made another tune out of pi, it's lovely!

3.14159265358979323846264338

Zero-Nine, Foxtrot-Nine, Eleven, Zero-Two, Nine-Delta, Seven-Four, Echo-Three, Five-Bravo, Delta-Eight, Four-One, Five-Six, Charlie-Five, Six-Three, Five-Six, Eight-Eight, Charlie-Zero

Some of the best prose to be written since Shakespeare.

Wil - you will really really love the numbers radio show that Simon Singh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Singh) did.

If you search hard you can find it on the Internets or by the looks of it listen live at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/5numbers.shtml

Best show ever to describe how powerful these numbers are.

Shaun

P.S - Your the coolest geek ever :-)

We need a song for this one. Hard n' Phirm did Pi, and I memorized 40 digits in a few days. (I need two more.)

This is more worthy of memorization, however, and as such deserves a song.

(Watch reddit for more *laughs*)

Linux FTW!!

Can't think what came over me there. *laughs*

Anything that makes the MPAA look stupid....

Wil, you naughty boy you....

And HEY! I happen to like pirates. They're Arrrggghsome.

I know, horrible pun. But I HAD to!

In 1978 I was 14 years old years old. I was in junior high, living in South Carolina at the time. LOL. I had one favorite teacher that was very kind to me, but when I was in grade school I had one teacher that was so mean to me that I wondered why he was even a teacher. He was so mean he even physically hit me or pinced me. I don't remember if he was fired or anything, I just remember more than my brothers and sisters do when it comes to childhood memories. Anyway I'm glad the teacher put your butterfly back where it belonged. It wasn't your fault either. *gives little Wil's memory a hug*

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