Pi Day is coming!

[User 2]

You could make a blueberry pie along the same lines only use sweetened sour cream instead of butterscotch.

Okay, okay.. I'll do it....
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[Dusty Rhodes]

Now let's see, I believe one can compute the circumference of a Mennonite by multiplying his radius (although I'm not sure what his armbone has to do with anything, but....oops, different radius, sorry, nevermind that part) the other radius times Pi, but, enought Apple pi will decidedly increase one's radius, and circumference as well, hummmmmmm, a bit of a crusty problem we have here! Is there an equation for Pi alamode?

[User 2]

Originally Posted by Dusty Rhodes

enought Apple pi will decidedly increase one's radius, and circumference as well, hummmmmmm, a bit of a crusty problem we have here!

...some may question whether there's any 'problem' at all.

...with the careful propagation of some few folk's radii that I've observed, (even to the extent of assigning a name in some cases), it's not a surety that in all circumstances it would be viewed as problematic.

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Speaking of equations, what's your favorite?

Mine is Euler's equation.

If 1 + 1 = 2 is the 'fairy tale' of mathematics, then Euler's equation is surely the most bizarre mathematical equation.

Euler’s equation contains nine basic mathematical concepts, they are:

....the square root of one (imaginary), exponents, multiplication,
pi (=3.14159... ), addition, equals, the base of natural logarithms (=2.71828... ), one, and zero

And the equation is:





What can be more mystical than an imaginary number interacting with real numbers to produce nothing.

Indeed, and to think some people tell me you can’t explain the inexplicable.

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[Dusty Rhodes]

Originally Posted by User 2

...some may question whether there's any 'problem' at all.

...with the careful propagation of some few folk's radii that I've observed, (even to the extent of assigning a name in some cases), it's not a surety that in all circumstances it would be viewed as problematic.
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Speaking of equations, what's your favorite?

Mine is Euler's equation.

If 1 + 1 = 2 is the 'fairy tale' of mathematics, then Euler's equation is surely the most bizarre mathematical equation.

Euler’s equation contains nine basic mathematical concepts, they are:

....the square root of one (imaginary), exponents, multiplication,
pi (=3.14159... ), addition, equals, the base of natural logarithms (=2.71828... ), one, and zero

And the equation is:




What can be more mystical than an imaginary number interacting with real numbers to produce nothing.

Indeed, and to think some people tell me you can’t explain the inexplicable.

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Am not sure that I have a favorite equation, what I really did appreciate was when it finally dawned on me that the Algebra and the rules governing the order of equation were the grammer, Calculus is the language of Mathematics, or perhaps more properly, Calculus is mathematics expressed as a language with it's own grammatical rules. Probability was a lot of fun and Sadistics lived up to its' name.

[Dusty Rhodes]

Oh! did I mis-spell that word, how careless of me!! hehehehe

[User 2]

Originally Posted by Dusty Rhodes

a language with it's own grammatical rules.

Blake wrote: "I have heard many People say, 'Give me the Ideas. It is no matter what Words you put them into.'"

To this he replies, "Ideas cannot be Given but in their minutely Appropriate Words."
- William Blake
(quoted by J. Newman, The World of Mathematics, 1956)

The language of math is sublime, but not without it's pitfalls, ...mostly precisely because of the translation into English language and the vagaries associated with a conglomerate language.

Nevertheless, equations can be described by both words and numeric notation.

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[quote]The Dumb Parrot
(or The Problem with Mathematicians)

The owner of a pet shop is a retired mathematician. He never lies, and he makes very precise statements. He tells a customer the parrot in the cage is extremely intelligent - in fact, "this bird will repeat every word he hears." The customer, impressed, buys the parrot. In a few days, the outraged customer returns with the parrot, saying, "I spoke to him for hours every day, but this stupid bird has not repeated a single word I said." Nevertheless, the pet shop proprietor did not lie. Is this possible?

Solution:

There are a number of solutions to this problem. Here are a few:

The bird is deaf (in physical terms, there is no initial condition). This is the most obvious solution. The bird will repeat every word he hears, but he cannot hear anything.

Since the proprietor did not say when the bird will repeat what he hears, an other answer is that the bird will repeat every word - in a few years. (The mathematician's solution has been translated along the t axis.)

The highly intelligent bird may well have ignored his new owner, who was an extremely boring conversationalist. After all, would an intelligent person speak to the parrot just to have it repeat the words?

The customer may be lying. (His wife found out how much the bird cost and forced him to return it.)

There are many solutions even more ridiculous than these. The situation arises from application of rigorous mathematical language to everyday usage, which is imprecise. The use of mathematical rigor in common communication would be maddeningly inconvenient. In everyday language, much is tacitly implied. The scientist lives between these extremes, and needs to check all definitions and descriptions to be certain of his or her understanding.

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Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle!

Whoever has not known you is without sense!

~Comte de Lautreamont

[Dusty Rhodes]

Oh yes, the problems can arise when translated into a conventionally spoken language, but, problems of translation are not exactly an unknown quantity. Good response, by-the-way!

[User 2]

...the equation I'm about to find a solution for soon,

...has to do with the displacement weight, and volume of newly fallen snow.

If I better understood fluid dynamics and wave motion, (with a side of chaos theory), I might better understand the drifting effect resulting from the high winds.

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I'll probably just end up taking a shovel to the problem.....
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