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Back in college, once my Mathematics professor asked us to check random flowers, trees and leaves to find Fibonacci number. Many of us checked only the branches in trees to confirm the Fibonacci number. And haven’t shown much interest on explore more.

Recently, I came across an interesting video about Fibonacci numbers in nature.

This that triggered me to check Fibonacci in nature. And a quick Google gave more results.

Now checking ever single flower, fruit, leaves for Fibonacci

Learning & Exploring  mathematics in real life is always fun!

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What is a paradox?

A paradox is a seemingly true statement or group of statements that lead to a contradiction or a situation which seems to defy logic or intuition.

-Wiki

A picture is worth a thousand words.

No Smoking Tray.

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Learn Mathematics

A little boy was doing his math homework.

He said to himself, ‘Two plus five, that son of a bitch is seven.

Three plus six, that son of a bitch is nine…..’

His mother heard what he was saying and gasped, ‘What are you doing?’

The little boy answered, ‘I’m doing my math homework, Mum.’

‘And this is how your teacher taught you to do it?’ the mother asked

‘Yes,’ he answered.

Infuriated, the mother asked the teacher the next day, ‘What are you teaching my son in math?’

The teacher replied, ‘Right now, we are learning addition.’

The mother asked, ‘And are you teaching them to say two plus two, that son of a bitch is four?’

After the teacher stopped laughing, she answered, ‘What I taught them was,
two plus two, THE SUM OF WHICH, is four.’

Story telling

One day the first grade teacher was reading the story of ‘Chicken Little’ to her class.

She came to the part of the story where Chicken Little tried to warn the farmer. She read, ‘… and so Chicken Little went up to the farmer and said, ‘The sky is falling, the sky is falling!’

The teacher paused then asked the class, ‘And what do you think that farmer said?’

One little girl raised her hand and said, ‘I think he said: ’Holy shit! A talking chicken!”

The teacher was unable to teach for the next 10 minutes.

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Mad Maths is always fun. False proof of obvious things will make this more interested.

Here is an amazing Maths comedy video to prove 7 times 13 is 28.

14th of March is being celebrated as Pi Day. Pi or π (What is pi?)has always been an interesting Mathematical constant to know about.

Google released a doodle on 14th March to join the Pi Day celebrations.

Here is the logo in case if you haven’t seen.

PI has always been an interesting mathematical constant. Most of the mathematicians in the world are using Pi to derive formulas.

Newton himself worked on the digits of Pi and spent a lot of time using one of the formulas he developed to get a few extra digits.

31 Dec 2009, Fabrice Bellard, a computer programmer/scientist from France, claimed the new world record for calculation of Pi, having it to nearly 2.7 trillion places. He announced that he used his desktop to calculate the 2.7 trillion digits.

By having 2.7 trillion digits, he had broken the previous record of 2.6 trillion digits by Daisuke Takahashi at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. The previous record was set using multi million Super Computers; where as the new record has been set using a desktop computer.

Few of the interesting facts about his findings.

• It took 131 days to calculate 2.7 trillion digits
• Used a desktop of Core i7 CPU at 2.93 GHz, 6 GB of RAM and 7.5 TB hard disks.
• Linux – Red Hat Fedora 10 distribution was used for this calculation.
• Desktop used to calculated the 2.7 trillion digits is worth less than 2000 Euros.
• The base 10 results needs 1137 GB  of storage space.

Let us wish him to continue his research to find more. This would definitely give a new dimension to Aribitrary Precision Arithmetic techniques.