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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 8:12 am
by Ann
891 is a bit less than 1,000.

891 is not the meaning of life, since 42 is the meaning of life.

891 divided by 42 is 21.214285, plus possibly an endless number of more decimals.

If you get an infinity of decimals when you divide 891 by 42, does that make 891 divided by the meaning of life an aspect of inifinity?

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21.214285 is close enough to half of 42 that 891 divided by 42 can be seen as close to half the meaning of life, plus an infinity of decimals.

So what is all this about?

Merely that this is my eight-hundred-ninety-first post, and NGC 891 is a pretty galaxy.

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Ann

Re: 891....

Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 12:55 pm
by neufer
Ann wrote:
891 divided by 42 is 21.214285, plus possibly an endless number of more decimals.

891 divided by 42 produces an endless number of 42's :

21.21428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571
428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571
428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571
428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571
428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571
428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571
428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571
428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571
428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571
428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571
428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571
428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571
428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571
428571428571428571428571428571428571....

Re: 891....

Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 5:35 pm
by Ann
Thanks, Art!! I really enjoyed that! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

And thanks for going to the trouble of coloring all those 42s red! (Hey, you could have colored them blue, too, but red is certainly good enough here!)

This lady is definitely not me, but she is happily contemplating the infinite number of 42s and the infinite repetition of the meaning of life! In red, too!

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Let's have a green smile to celebrate! :mrgreen:

Ann

Re: 891....

Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 11:59 pm
by neufer
Ann wrote:
Thanks, Art!! I really enjoyed that! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

And thanks for going to the trouble of coloring all those 42s red! (Hey, you could have colored them blue, too, but red is certainly good enough here!)
Mean tropical year ~ 365.24219 mean solar days

Neuferian year = 365 + 8/33 days = 365.24242424242424242424242424242424......

Gregorian year = 365.2425 mean solar days

Julian year = 365.25 days

Re: 891....

Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 3:27 am
by Ann
neufer wrote:
Neuferian year = 365 + 8/33 days = 365.24242424242424242424242424242424......
:D :mrgreen: :D :mrgreen: :D :mrgreen: :D :mrgreen: :D :mrgreen:

Ann

Ms Ann tropical year (perhaps)

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 3:21 am
by neufer
neufer wrote:
Mean tropical year ~ 365.24219 mean solar days

Ms Ann tropical year = 365 + 8/33 days = 365.24242424242424242424242424242424......
[I.e., 8 leap years every 33 years]

Gregorian year = 365.2425 mean solar days

Julian year = 365.25 days

Re: 891....

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:25 am
by Ann
Ah, the wonders of math!!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/opinion/l13math.html

And I don't know what this picture has to do with the wonders of math, but I found it when I googled "wonders of math", so...

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Ann

Re: 891....

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:28 am
by Ann
And hey, I forgot that I just passed by 908 (I thought that rang a bell), but better late than never...

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That was me two posts ago!

Ann

Re: 891....

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 1:06 pm
by neufer
Ann wrote:
Ah, the wonders of math!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/opinion/l13math.html

And I don't know what this picture has to do with the wonders of math,
but I found it when I googled "wonders of math", so...
Image

Ann
It's “Owlice in Annderland” (where everything is very very YELLOW!)
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