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isolationist:
Heck!!!

It won't stop loading!!!

Kintaro:
"HOLY FUCK"

beltorak0:
I much prefer 'e'.  It shows up everywhere too.  Anytime the rate of change of an item depends on the quantity of that item, 'e' is thrown into the mix.  Population, stored charge, the effects of friction on harmonic motion... you name it.

2.7818281828459045....

then again 'i' is great for giggles when it shows up in physics and people try to explain it in real terms -- "A particle with an imaginary mass -- yeah, of course! it would have negative energy, which is to say that it travels backwards in time, and it would take an infinate amount of energy to slow it down to the speed of light... in theory... we haven't actually caught one yet, but the math says that it exists!"

For the concrete minds, '1' is a great number too... "The Unit"; upon which counting becomes relevent.

'0' is an interesting number just because us poor backwards westerners had no idea it existed before we stole it from the arabs.  Could you imagine what it would be like not to understand zero as a number?  To the Greeks: "Q: If I had three apples, and I gave three apples away, how many do I have? A: What do you mean, how many? You don't have any!  There's no such thing as less than one!" -- enter zeno.

But the numbers are not nearly as much fun as equations:  e^({pi}i) + 1 = 0 is a fundamental truth....

Calum:
i prefer 'n' myself.

reminds me of a time back in high school when our physics teacher had gone through a long, protracted and boring explanation of the equation about enery's relation to force and mass (with 'E' representing energy) and at the end of his explanation he concluded with the words 'now can anybody tell me how to get 'E'?'

Silence for about three seconds until somebody piped up from the back of the class:
'i can get you some if you want'.

xyle_one:

quote:Originally posted by Calum: Member # 81:
i prefer 'n' myself.

reminds me of a time back in high school when our physics teacher had gone through a long, protracted and boring explanation of the equation about enery's relation to force and mass (with 'E' representing energy) and at the end of his explanation he concluded with the words 'now can anybody tell me how to get 'E'?'

Silence for about three seconds until somebody piped up from the back of the class:
'i can get you some if you want'.
--- End quote ---


lol  :D  dirty ravers  ;)

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