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Clifford Pickover!

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover ... nival.html

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POST 2369

mos def



[Intro]
You know the deal, it's just me, yo
Beats by Su-Primo for all of my peoples, negroes and latinos
And even the gringos

[Verse 1]
Yo, check it one for Charlie Hustle, 2 for Steady Rock
3 for the forthcoming live future shock
It's 5 dimensions, 6 senses
7 firmaments of heaven and hell, 8 Million Stories to tell
9 planets faithfully keep in orbit
With the probable tenth, the universe expands length
The body of my text possess extra strength
Power-lift the powerless up out of this towering inferno
My ink so hot it burn through the journal
I'm blacker than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle
Hip-Hop passed all your tall social hurdles
Like the nationwide project-prison-industry complex
Working-class poor: better keep your alarm set
Streets too loud to ever hear freedom ring
Say evacuate your sleep, it's dangerous to dream
But you chain cats j-j-pow! You dead now
Killing fields need blood to graze the cash cow
It's a number game, but shit don't add up somehow
Like I got, 16 to 32 bars to rock it
But only 15% of profits ever see my pockets like
69 billion in the last 20 years
Spent on national defense but folks still live in fear like
Nearly half of America's largest cities is one-quarter black
That's why they gave Ricky Ross all the crack
16 ounces to a pound, 20 more to a ki
A 5-minute sentence hearing and you're no longer free
40% of Americans own a cell phone
So they can hear everything that you say when you ain't home
I guess Michael Jackson was right: "You Are Not Alone"
Rock your hardhat, black, cause you in the Terrordome
Full of hard niggas, large niggas, dice-tumblers
Young teens and prison greens facing life numbers
Crack mothers, crack babies and AIDS patients
Young bloods can't spell but they could rock you in PlayStation
This new math is whipping motherfuckers' ass
You want to know how to rhyme you better learn how to add
It's mathematics

[Hook]
"The Mighty Mos Def.." "It's simple mathematics"
"Check it out!" "I revolve around science.."
"What are we talking about here?"

"Do your math"
"1, 2, 3, 4"
"What are we talking about here?"

[Verse 2]
It's one universal law but 2 sides to every story
3 strikes and you be in for life, mandatory
4 MC's murdered in the last 4 years
I ain't trying to be the fifth one, the millennium is here
Yo it's 6 Million Ways to Die, from the 7 deadly thrills
8-year olds getting found with 9mils
It's 10 P.M., where your seeds at? What's the deal?
He on the hill puffing krill to keep they belly filled
Light in the ass with heavy steel, sights on the pretty shit in life
Young soldiers trying to earn their next stripe
When the average minimum wage is $5.15
You best believe you've got to find a new grind to get C.R.E.A.M
The white unemployment rate? It's nearly more than triple for black
Some front-liners got their gun in your back
Bubbling crack, jewel theft and robbery to combat poverty
And end up in the global jail economy
Stiffer stipulations attached to each sentence
Budget cutbacks but increased police presence
And even if you get out of prison still living
Join the other 5 million under state supervision
This is business: no faces, just lines and statistics
From your phone, your zip code to S-S-I digits
The system break man, child, and women into figures
2 columns for "who is" and "who ain't niggas"
Numbers is hard and real and they never have feelings
But you push too hard, even numbers got limits
Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret:
The million other straws underneath it: it's all mathematics

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CHYCHO

if you're into maths or want to get into it.



legend. dude.

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I always sucked at math, but this made it more understandable. Stumbled upon this really informative weekly series on youtube that explores(in fun easy to digest ways) scientific algorhythms in the every day use of certain numbers.

Such as the secret power of "11"(ISBN numbers, error correction codes)


Greek origin of 666


Why 42 with Douglas Adams?


Hoping they do one on 77. Or why some of us see 9:11 or 11:11 all the time on clocks/watches/cell phones

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^ What is up with Noises?
The Science and Mathematics of Sound, Frequency, and Pitch

"In probability theory, the birthday problem or birthday paradox concerns the probability that, in a set of n randomly chosen people, some pair of them will have the same birthday. By the pigeonhole principle, the probability reaches 100% when the number of people reaches 366 (since there are 365 possible birthdays, excluding February 29th). However, 99% probability is reached with just 57 people, and 50% probability with 23 people."

...An informal demonstration of the problem can be made from the list of Prime Ministers of Australia, in which Paul Keating, the 24th Prime Minister, and Edmund Barton, the first Prime Minister, share same birthday i.e. 18 January.

James K. Polk and Warren G. Harding, the 11th and 29th Presidents of the United States, were both born on November 2.

Sir John A. Macdonald and Jean Chrétien, the 1st and 20th Prime Ministers of Canada, were both born on January 11.

Of the 73 male actors to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, there are six pairs of actors who share the same birthday.[18]

Of the 67 actresses to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, there are three pairs of actresses who share the same birthday.[19]

Of the 61 directors to win the Academy Award for Best Director, there are five pairs of directors who share the same birthday.[20]

Of the 52 people to serve as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, there are two pairs of men who share the same birthday.

Also, "in a group of just seven random people, it is more likely than not that two of them will have a birthday within a week of each other."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

The birthday problem has got me wondering; is there some cosmic version of this at play when we experience synchronicities. I mean I've had some really wild ones, but maybe on some level we don't grasp yet, the odds are not as far out as common sense would have us believe. In a kind of 'chaos is a higher order that we're not understanding yet' way. And not only on a personal level, but when words or numbers pop up in big events, like "Holmes" in the Batman and Sikh shootings for example.

http://www.jasondavies.com/primos/

you can zoom out and drag too

I solved it in a couple of minutes. Not sure what that says about me.

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Spoiler Alert!











=2

The number of circles.

Less than a minute.

Circles. Spheres. Wheels within wheels.

0 point.

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edited

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OOOF, thanks, HoL ... I was returning to that puzzle because I could only give it 2 mins yesterday.

Maybe be a sport and edit your answer to contain a SPOILER ALERT at the top, yeah?