Friday, June 27, 2014

23 Fascinating Maths Facts You'll Probably Never Need To Use

Proof is left as an exercise for the reader.


If you write out pi to two decimal places, backwards it spells "pie".


If you write out pi to two decimal places, backwards it spells "pie".


3.14 = PIE.


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A French word for pie chart is "camembert".


A French word for pie chart is "camembert".


Because of course it is.


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The spiral shapes of sunflowers follow a Fibonacci sequence.


The spiral shapes of sunflowers follow a Fibonacci sequence.


That's where you add the two preceding numbers in the sequence to give you the next one. So it starts 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc. The Fibonacci sequence shows up in nature a fair bit.


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The Fibonacci sequence is encoded in the number 1/89.


The Fibonacci sequence is encoded in the number 1/89.


1/89 = 0.01 + 0.001 + 0.0002 + 0.00003 + 0.000005 + 0.0000008 + 0.00000013 + 0.000000021 + 0.0000000034 etc.


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