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By The Count, on March 14th, 2010
Happy Pi Day! Yes, it’s that time of year again when the month and day (in the American form of date representation) for those legendary 3 digits 3/14, also known as the beginning of the mathematical term Pi1. Being The Count, however, I’m certainly not satisfied with just one Pi Day each year, or just matching 3 digits of Pi for my festivities. No, I must venture forth to find other Math-related dates to share the joy that is the geeky holiday.
Continue reading Pi for lunch?
By The Count, on September 1st, 2009
Happy Birthday to me. Yes, that’s right, you’re friendly Count was born 40 years ago today, which just happened to be Labor Day in 1969. In light of this special event, I’ve prepared a little set of numbers just for fun. None of this is particularly important, just a bit of mind-candy for my birthday. So let’s go!
40 years on this Earth has some easy conversions into smaller time periods. 480 months makes 2,080 weeks pretty easily. Days is more of a problem, as there are some irregularities in the Leap Day counts. As it happens, those 40 years turned into 14,600 days at 365/year plus 10 leap days is 14,610 total days. This computes to 350,400 hours, times 60 for 21,024,000 minutes, and again for 1,261,440,000 seconds. That’s right, over a billion seconds I’ve been alive!
Continue reading Counting time
By The Count, on July 5th, 2009
Ah, there’s nothing quite like the geek joke. When you hear one, you’re torn between not wanting to look stupid and not wanting to look too smart! I’ve heard a lot of them in my time, and thought I’d share some of my favorites with you here.
There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
Not only does this joke require some small bit of knowledge to get, but this classic example of the geek joke even refers to the separation between those who will get the joke and the rest of humanity. Not a bad start.
Continue reading Classical Geek jokes
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