No. Pi is a transcendental number, and transcendental numbers are a subset of irrational numbers, which by definition cannot be represented as a ratio of two integers. Pi = C/D, which in the case of this sphere are two finite integers. As another poster said, you're limited by the precision of the total number of atoms in your sphere. If you used a larger or smaller sphere, you'll get a different value of C/D.
Poe, E.: Near a Raven encodes the first 740 digits of pi using word lengths as digits, while preserving the structure, story, and tone of the poem it is based on.
The
Fib
Sequence
Is tied to
Many things in science. Wikipedia lists a few:
Bees' parents, grass, flowers, pinecones, raspberries, and shells.
Fascinating--pineapples have two Fibonacci spirals in different directions.
And I think you'll agree that the Fibonacci numbers are intrinsically mathematical, and no one would deny math is a science.
Thanks for the insight. The name is the Schwarzschild Radius:
Wikipidia page
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Even better, eliminate "the reason" altogether: "H5N1 is being followed so closely becaue...."
Vigorous writing is concise. Eliminate unnecessary words.
Furthermore, please use real sentences! "Whether it's from the H5N1 strain...or another strain a few years down the road," causes me to backtrack and read the whole fragment again looking for a main verb, as does, "The 1918 strain being the worst, with 40 million killed."
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected (x) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it (x) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it (x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats (x) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches (x) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers (x) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering (x) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses (x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email (x) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
These people spent 10 hours constructing their very own Imperial II-class Star Destroyer from LEGO...and we spent 10 seconds taking down any server brave enough to offer movies of it.
I typed in the following text to Microsoft Word 2003:
In A.D. 2101 war was beginning. What happen? Somebody set up us the bomb. We get signal. What! Main screen turn on. It's you!! How are you gentlemen!! All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction. What you say!! You have no chance to survive make your time. Ha Ha Ha Captain!! Take off every 'Zig'!! You know what you doing. Move 'Zig'. For great justice.
The only things it flagged were "all your base are" (suggested "base is" or "bases are") and "for great justice" (sentence fragment).
Grammatical and sociological implications are left as an exercise to the reader.
This annoyed me too. Vigorous writing is concise. It should have been written thusly:
We don't need to take out our tinfoil hats this time, because [there] are constructive uses for these tags.
That's 19 words versus 37 in the original sentence--38 if you add in the missing word to make it grammatically correct. Half the original words were superfluous.
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That's no moon. It's a space station.
No. Pi is a transcendental number, and transcendental numbers are a subset of irrational numbers, which by definition cannot be represented as a ratio of two integers. Pi = C/D, which in the case of this sphere are two finite integers. As another poster said, you're limited by the precision of the total number of atoms in your sphere. If you used a larger or smaller sphere, you'll get a different value of C/D.
I think you misspelled "UPS" there.
WEll, they already believe that $0.02 = $0.0002. Why not also believe that 5 == infinity ?
From TFA: "It expanded in a million trillion trillionths of a second."
As in, a million seconds?
Maybe they're using a 0-based year array.
Poe, E.: Near a Raven encodes the first 740 digits of pi using word lengths as digits, while preserving the structure, story, and tone of the poem it is based on.
The gravity of your post should help with that massive modding "down."
The
Fib
Sequence
Is tied to
Many things in science.
Wikipedia lists a few:
Bees' parents, grass, flowers, pinecones, raspberries, and shells.
Fascinating--pineapples have two Fibonacci spirals in different directions.
And I think you'll agree that the Fibonacci numbers are intrinsically mathematical, and no one would deny math is a science.
Thanks for the insight. The name is the Schwarzschild Radius: Wikipidia page
Vigorous writing is concise. Eliminate unnecessary words.
Furthermore, please use real sentences! "Whether it's from the H5N1 strain...or another strain a few years down the road," causes me to backtrack and read the whole fragment again looking for a main verb, as does, "The 1918 strain being the worst, with 40 million killed."
Your lawsuit advocates a
( ) technical (x) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
(x) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
(x) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
(x) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(x) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
(x) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
(x) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
(x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
(x) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
L2 is occupied by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, and in the future, a telescope is planned to occupy that location.
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory is currently in orbit at L1.
Don't be so proud of this technological terror you've constructed.
These people spent 10 hours constructing their very own Imperial II-class Star Destroyer from LEGO...and we spent 10 seconds taking down any server brave enough to offer movies of it.
In Soviet Russia, all of us are belong to base.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddently cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
15 GOTO 10 'um, yeah. goto line 10
The only things it flagged were "all your base are" (suggested "base is" or "bases are") and "for great justice" (sentence fragment).
Grammatical and sociological implications are left as an exercise to the reader.
That's 19 words versus 37 in the original sentence--38 if you add in the missing word to make it grammatically correct. Half the original words were superfluous.
100ml = 3.4 fluid ounces (about half a cup)
Hm.