Showing posts with label Math. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Math. Show all posts

Monday, February 6, 2012

Why things need to be right

I feel that engineers would appreciate this. I know this, because it was sent to me by an engineer.



Why Calibrate?
By PublicResourceOrg

http://youtu.be/yxZBNYBoLLU



I love vintage videos!

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

No pi means no pie for you, buddy

Apparently some people think that pi is a flawed mathematical measurement. Not being much of a math person, I wouldn't know, although I definitely remember playing around with unit circles and radians in several math courses throughout high school and college.

And I've never heard of tau, which these pi-haters say is the better number to use. It's twice the amount of pi.

Yeah. I don't have anything more intelligent to add. Article!



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13906169