Pi Day Challenge: Can You Solve These NASA Math Problems?:
To celebrate Pi Day, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is serving up a series of science and engineering questions related to some of the agency's Earth and space missions.
[...] Though it has an infinite number of decimals, the mathematical constant is usually abbreviated to 3.14, which is why Pi Day is celebrated on March 14. To mark the occasion this year, the STEM engagement office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has released a quartet of illustrated science and engineering questions related to NASA missions: the upcoming Lunar Flashlight and SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) missions, along with InSight and TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite).
[...] Now in its ninth year, the NASA Pi Day Challenge is accompanied by other pi-related resources for educators, K-12 students and parents, including lessons and teachable moments, articles, downloadable posters, and web/mobile backgrounds.
Follow the above links to find all four questions. NASA will publish the answers on March 15.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by FatPhil on Monday March 14 2022, @08:38AM (18 children)
... or with the use of the phrase "an infinite number"? As your target audience understand "number", there are no "infinite numbers", you've confused their understanding of a difficult and nuanced concept by your muddled use of terminology.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14 2022, @08:54AM (12 children)
So, you cannot solve the simple math challenges?
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by FatPhil on Monday March 14 2022, @09:08AM (10 children)
Terrible illogic in use in your post, too. You literarily have pulled a false conclusion out of your arse. You presumably thought that was the best place to pull a conclusion from, as it's where you keep your brain, but alas the rest of the world has higher standards.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Monday March 14 2022, @09:42AM (9 children)
e.g. Q1:
Assuming pulses are instantious, the area of a pulse/m^2 = pi*17.5^2
17.5^2 is 17^2+17+0.25, and 17^2 is 289, so 306.25
No need to do a tricky multiplication, much easier to use a difference of squares as, with appropriate scaling the numbers are so similar:
3.1416*306.25 is 31.416*30.625 which is (31.0205+0.3955)*(31.0205-0.3955) which is 31.0205^2-0.3955^2
31.0205^2 is 31^2+2*31*.02+shrapnel, so 961+1.24, and 0.3955^2 is slightly larger shrapnel at just under 0.16
So the answer's 962 m^2 to 3 s.f.
The 962.1 that you could get from that subtraction has unwarranted precision given that of the inputs.
It takes about 5 times longer to type than to just calculate in your head, because you don't need to carry all the trailing digits around in your head as they are unnecessary precision, I just didn't want to include any lies in the above, lest some twat who doesn't understand precision try to pretend that some perfectly valid corner-cutting is "wrong".
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14 2022, @09:50AM (7 children)
Where is the +1 Lightning Calculator mod when I need it??!!
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday March 14 2022, @10:01AM (6 children)
Having said that, I almost wonder if they contrived the numbers in the questions to make them amenable to easy calculation. Number 2's answer is suspicious to say the least...
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14 2022, @10:22AM (4 children)
Some good company here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_calculator#Mental_calculators_(deceased) [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday March 14 2022, @10:50AM (3 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 3, Funny) by cmdrklarg on Monday March 14 2022, @04:50PM (2 children)
*nods* A fellow sufferer of CRS*
* Can't Remember Shit
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14 2022, @07:10PM (1 child)
FatPhil triggered at least 3.14159 times. He's gone full circle! Was supposed to be θ, but he kept rounding, so π.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday March 14 2022, @09:57PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday March 14 2022, @10:45AM
If so, divide by 4.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Monday March 14 2022, @09:57AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday March 14 2022, @03:43PM
Step 1: Move to Indiana, the math is much easier there! [gizmodo.com]
(it ain't actually true but it's still interesting!)
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 14 2022, @03:01PM (3 children)
1. Prove e^{i*Pi} = -1.
2. Now do it without using Taylor series.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 14 2022, @03:16PM (2 children)
3. Now do it without explicitly using the relation, e^{i*x} = cos(x)+i*sin(x).
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 14 2022, @03:17PM (1 child)
FTFM.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 17 2022, @12:47PM
For 1, the common way to do it is to expand e^{ix} as a power series in x. The real part has the power series of cos(x) and the imaginary part has the power series of sin(x). That is, you get the identity:
Substitute in x=Pi to get the desired e^{i Pi} = -1.
For 2, e^{ix} is a solution to
The differential equation is linear with two parameters defining the space. Both cos(x) and sin(x) also solve that differential equation and are distinct solutions (for example, you can use the Wronskian, W(cos(x), sin(x)) = cos(x)^2 - (-sin(x))sin(x) = 1. As long as the Wronskian is nonzero, the two solutions are linearly independent.
Since as noted above, we have two linearly independent solutions of the above differential equation and as a second order differential equation, it's solution space is two dimensions, then any solution has to be a linear combination of cos(x) and sin(x), particularly, e^{ix}. Evaluate both the function and its first derivative at x=0 to determine what coefficients of cos(x) and sin(x) to use. e^{i0}=1 and i e^{i0} = i. That yields the e^{ix} = cos(x) + i sin(x) identity.
For 3, we won't assume any properties of e^x beyond the basic definition (y'=y and y(0)=1). Note that e^x solves u'=u, and e^{-x} solves v'=-v. (uv)' = u'v + uv'= uv -uv = 0. That indicates that any product of solutions to this pair of differential equations yields a constant. Since we also have u(0)=v(0)=1 by definition, that yields e^x * e^{-x} = 1. In particular, e^{ix}*e^{-ix}=1. Notice that the second factor e^{-ix} is complex conjugate of the first. That happens because the defining differential equations are strictly real with only real coefficients and the initial condition is real (=1).
Let F(x) = Real part of e^{ix} and G(x) = Imaginary part of e^{ix}. That is:
(While F and G are cos(x) and sin(x) respectively, we don't use the properties of those functions at all!) Then e^{ix} = F(x) + iG(x). The complex conjugate of e^{ix} is F(x) - iG(x), which we already know is e^{-ix}. Thus, e^{ix}*e^{-ix} = F^2 + G^2 = 1, which is in terms of F and G a real parameterization in terms of real number x of a radius 1 circle (which we can denote in the real 2 dimensional plane as (F(x), G(x))).
What remains is to observe is that this parameterization is unit speed in x. Since (e^{ix})' = ie^{ix}, then F'(x)=-G(x) and G'(x)=F(x), so sqrt{F'(x)^2 + G'(x)^2}=1 (definition of speed of the parameterization) for all x. So what happens when you integrate the speed of a parameterization along a curve? You get the length of the curve. For a speed one curve, where you start with x=0, your x value always is the length integrated to that point (integrals of 1 from 0 to x are always x). So if we integrated fully around the circle, we get the circumference, 2Pi. That's the definition of Pi right there. This in turn implies F(2Pi)=1 and G(2Pi)=0.
So if we integrate exactly halfway, we get x=Pi. Well, that ends up at the point (-1,0) exactly opposite (1,0). If you're concerned that the top half length may not be equal to the same length from the bottom half, the latter is a reflection of the former in the X axis, and reflections are length preserving. So what we get is that:
That in turn means that e^{iPi} = F(Pi)+iG(Pi)=-1 and we are done.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14 2022, @10:21PM
Or, by your muddled and condescending lack of reading comprehension? Is PhatFull the new TMB? The Fine Summary clearly states:
And never calls it an infinite number, which would be weird, since that is ∞, not π, and π is merely an irrational, having no ratio, or instead, and infinite number of decimals that ever approaches the true value of π.
Funny how Dunning-Kroeger is so much more pronounced in those with a competency in some areas of knowledge, so their blindness outside those areas is even more opaque to them.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14 2022, @10:38AM (33 children)
Here are the four NASA Math Challenge questions in case you don't want to follow the link...
1. The budget for building a rocket is $14 billion. How much will it end up costing taxpayers?
2. The schedule for launching a space telescope set in 1998 says it will take 12 years. When will it launch?
3. A congressman has six aerospace companies in his district. How much of a budget increase will he vote for?
4. A Latina engineer earns $120,000. A white male engineer earns $200,000. How can you prove that these numbers are equal?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14 2022, @03:05PM (29 children)
Maybe one of them chooses to work more hours because the other one chooses/chose to spend more time with their children. The extra experience gained from the extra hours plus the extra work put in from those extra hours resulted in more pay.
I think they did the math before and they found that if you compare women that work the same number of hours as men they roughly make the same. It's just that men tend to work more hours.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14 2022, @03:32PM (28 children)
It should also be noted that back in the days when the main concern wasn't all this identity politics junk, and it was trying to ensure that those that work the hardest and scored the highest are paid and promoted based on their merit, we were able to advance ahead of everyone militarily and technologically very quickly (ie: we were quick to put the first man on the moon) and while wasting much less money and time.
Now a days when test scores are considered racist (hint: they're not) and we must make everyone equal no matter how much more one group tends to excel at a certain thing over another, everything is way over budget and behind schedule.
Some groups of people, as a whole, tend to have different cultural values than others. We shouldn't impose this idea that every subculture needs equal representation in every culture.
For instance (I'm not Muslim), most Muslim females that I know tend to be uneducated housewives/mothers. I think I know one Muslim female that has like a bachelor's or master's degree in Biology but she never worked a day in her life (at least in the field of biology), she was a mom/housewife her whole life. Yeah, I've seen them have jobs like babysitting, perhaps cleaning, etc... but, for whatever reason, in Islamic culture they tend to believe that females should not be educated and whatnot and they often bring that culture with them to other countries that don't believe that.
Should we then impose a subculture on them and say, look, we don't have enough female Muslim engineers. We need to make sure they are equally represented in our population of engineers. Let's fire all of our existing engineers until we get an equal representation and don't hire anyone that isn't a female Muslim until they are equally represented.
What about the Amish, should we make sure they are equally represented in each subculture?
It is and has always been the rule, and not the exception to the rule, that certain groups will be represented disproportionately in different subcultures. Much of this can be attributed to the fact that different groups tend to have different values.
How Envy Drives National Politics (A Case Study) | Thomas Sowell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YnNk-Rux0s [youtube.com]
The Unspoken Myths Behind Affirmative Action | Thomas Sowell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87CJIwmTEHI [youtube.com]
For instance, I have heard some younger Hispanics tell me that their goal is to have a large family (many children) because their parents/grandparents had a large family. In my experience talking to them they tend to value larger families much more than many other groups of people. Though I would say that the younger generation probably isn't as enthusiastic about having children as the older generation (I know at least one Hispanic immigrant parent that was talking/maybe complaining about how at least one of her children doesn't want children and how the younger generation doesn't want as many children).
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14 2022, @07:06PM (26 children)
Ah, the imaginary MAGA days, when America was Grift! I remember those days well, when white male privilege got a white male promoted to the station they deserved, based on merit and racial superiority, not any of this diversity and inclusivity crap! And, we white males liked it! But now, these black and brown and female people, with their fancy book-learning and advanced degrees, and proven records of success have made it impossible for a mediocre white male like myself to even get a job, let alone a career. So I just stay in my ex-mom's basement, leaching off the neighbor's Wifi, to post diatribes on the internets, about how it is all so not fair!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14 2022, @07:09PM
"when white male privilege got a white male promoted to the station they deserved, based on merit and racial superiority, not any of this diversity and inclusivity crap!"
Those were the democrats that did all that. The republicans have mostly been consistent about merit based success and they continue to be consistent about it. The democrats are the ones that have, in the past, based everything on race. Before it was about giving whites privilege. Now someone else gets privilege. The point is to create racial tension so that we can spend too much time blaming each other and fighting each other instead of focusing on the government's failures.
Again, regardless of race, success should be based on merit and merit alone. Basing it on race is racist. It's the same trick the democrats used to play repeated all over again and it's very despicable.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14 2022, @07:20PM (19 children)
"now, these black and brown and female people, with their fancy book-learning and advanced degrees, and proven records of success have made it impossible for a mediocre white male like myself to even get a job"
If they work hard and earn the same grades as everyone else then they do in fact deserve the same exact treatment. If they take the same risks and make successful businesses, etc...
But, for instance, in California we have very clearly racist laws on the books. For instance we have laws that require racial/racist and gender quotas for board of directors. Universities often have racist acceptance standards holing certain groups to lower standards because test scores are racist. If what you are saying is really true then why do they have to get special privileges that no one else gets. That's not fair to everyone else. Brought to you by the same racist party that passed the Jim crow laws and promoted slavery (the democrats) and then they turn around and lie and claim it was the republicans that in fact did that. Very despicable. So the innovation is moving away so that people can start and run their own successful businesses elsewhere.
No one stopped, say, a person of color from starting their own Facebook or Google or Youtube and making it successful. and if they do then more power to them, I have no problems with that. If they get accepted to a university with the same test scores as anyone else of any other race then I have absolutely no problems with that. But now if you want to start a business you may have to make sure that it meets certain racist quotas. This can cause these businesses to be mismanaged as race starts to get prioritized over merit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14 2022, @07:58PM (18 children)
Lesser White intellect whoooosh, right there.
The get special privileges to offset the special disadvantages that systemic racism has created. I know your white privilege keeps you from seeing this, but we can arrange a special education course in CRT just for you. Affirmative Equal Opportunity for racist white guys, we call it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14 2022, @08:31PM (17 children)
You don't combat past racism with more racism. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Thank the Republicans for removing the past racism and advocate against any more racism being passed by the democrats. Move on, work hard, and succeed.
Plus there are many examples of people that were equally discriminated against that also turned out successful. Jews, the Japanese to name two.
People that come to this country don't have these backgrounds that they experienced from this country. Just like someone born here starts out about the same as a poor foreigner regardless of ancestral background here. Yet many have succeeded.
These special privileges are racist. They are intended to bring racial divide. They should be abolished.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14 2022, @10:45PM (16 children)
Perhaps, but the only real solution to systemic racism is counter-racism. You may be the one who suffers from this, but look at it this way, the real solution would be to turn the historical tables, and enslave whites based solely on their skin color. I mean, what do you want? Reparations for the slight inconvenience of giving everyone else a truly fair opportunity to succeed? This is what you call "merit"? No wonder you don't get hired, basic cognitive deficits.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday March 15 2022, @12:53AM (6 children)
No, that's just more systemic racism.
You do realize that everyone responsible for those historical tables and enslavement are all long dead? The ultimate futility of all this is that nobody alive is responsible for the wrongs of the distant past. But you acknowledge that the policies of the present create suffering for people who had nothing to do with that terrible past. That indicates to me the wrongness of the counter-racist policy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2022, @01:11AM
The democrats want us to vote for them so that they can 'fix' the problem that they created. It's an interesting strategy.
Create a problem.
Tell everyone that they should elect you to fix the problem that you created.
Blame the problem that you created on your opposition.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2022, @08:04AM (1 child)
No one more white and pasty, oblivious and ignorant, and prone to obfuscate with irrelevant math, than our own dear white privileged khallow! All Hail khallow! He needs some Uber bucks, in his libertarian dream economy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2022, @05:39PM
I bet you that you think test scores are racist too, am I right? Let me guess, you personally never scored well on those tests, darn racism. It's obvious that you aren't very intelligent since you keep on misusing the term 'systemic racism' and trying to redefine it.
"Institutional racism, also known as systemic racism, is a form of racism that is embedded in the laws and regulations of a society or an organization."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism [wikipedia.org]
but, darn, you must have failed at basic reading because you keep on misusing the term and looking stupid and ignorant. Blame your failures on racism because truth is racist, logic is racist, reading comprehension is racist, etc...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 16 2022, @12:08AM (2 children)
Are you seriously suggesting that we just let whites reap the benefits of their ancestors violence and criminality? The results of those wrongs, and continued lesser wrongs, continue to this day. This is why we need the white genocide, to shake up these ignorant whities, who do not even know they are white! White privileged, that is. If you have white privilege, you are responsible, even now. Racist fucker!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 16 2022, @12:39AM
Ok, at this point it's obvious that you are just trolling. I will disengage since all of your posts aren't even meant to be taken seriously.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 16 2022, @04:53AM
Are you so seriously suggesting that? Nobody else is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2022, @01:00AM (8 children)
It's past systemic racism. You are introducing current systemic racism to try and counter past systemic racism.
The only systemic racism that currently exists is the systemic racism the democrats are passing (ie: race quotas). That is systemic racism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2022, @08:08AM (7 children)
Systemic Racism is current. Take a look at average family assets, by race. Accident? Homeownership levels? Incarceration? Number of persons forced to make a living trying to be funny? Kanye West? And you think this is all past, honky? Why White People be so dumb? Perhaps to protect their snowflake egos. "I never owned no slaves, nor burned down a village (except in 'Nam), and never raped anyone who didn't have it coming, and we only invaded Briton that one time."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2022, @05:35PM (6 children)
Systemic racism is racism on the law books. Just because some groups of people may differ from others doesn't mean systemic racism is the cause. Perhaps some groups of people are more prone to commit crimes. Just like certain groups of people are more likely to be in the NBA. You can't blame everything on racism.
The systemic racism that does exist is the systemic racism that California passed with racial and gender quotas. That's racism on the books.
Show me where the systemic racism you speak of is on the law books and I'll concur. So far you have given me zero examples. Otherwise you are dishonestly using the term incorrectly and it only makes you look bad.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2022, @08:58PM (5 children)
Yep, racist! But, funny, it is just like I was saying, white people are just naturally racist, and they institutionalize racism in the laws and regulations and economic distribution of society, and they tend to have this bizarrely over-estimated sense of their own worth, so the are genetically incapable of recognizing structural white privilege. Too bad, they just can't help it. And, short of CRISPR, we can't fix them, so we may have to take measures to defend society. The majority of the violent crime in America is committed by whites, the majority of sexual assault on children, the vast majority of financial crimes, and the overwhelming majority of Congress is white. It's a problem!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2022, @10:16PM (2 children)
If you go to another country that majority changes. If your country is so much better why not go back.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2022, @10:24PM
(IOW you need to look at weighted averages).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 16 2022, @12:10AM
Cruel thing to say to a Native American.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2022, @11:24PM (1 child)
I am not sure what you mean by accident. Much of your drivel is mostly incomprehensible and you keep changing subjects so it's not surprising that most of what you say is nonsense.
You claim that incarceration rates are racist but that those races are not more prone to commit crimes. Where are your statistics on this.
Here are some arrest statistics. At least in absolute numbers whites do get arrested for some things more than some other races. So where is the evidence of your 'systemic racism.'
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/topic-pages/tables/table-21 [fbi.gov]
I really don't expect that you would present any evidence to back up your claims.
Also I don't see how your post is not racist. You are very clearly racist.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 16 2022, @12:13AM
I know you are, but what am I? (Fortunately, I am well acquainted with the juvenile level of racist arguments on SN.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14 2022, @07:29PM (4 children)
"have made it impossible for a mediocre white male like myself to even get a job, let alone a career."
These laws affect everyone. I want my doctor/surgeon to be the best of the best. I want them to have the best test scores. I don't want my doctor to be someone that was able to get to where they are because they were held to a lower standard. Rich or poor I want my doctor to be the person with the most merit. It's a matter of principle.
I want the bridge that I am driving over, the building that I am in, not to collapse. I want them to be safe. I want the car that I'm using to be as safe as possible. I want the engineers designing this stuff to be the best of the best. I don't want them to have gotten where they are based on race whatsoever. It shouldn't be a factor. They did well, they get to design that bridge so it can be safe. It affects everyone including myself.
These racist laws that California passed, these racist quotas that universities are imposing, should not exist because we are all better off without them. I would be against them if they favored any race including my own. You should too if you were being honest and only want what's socially best for everyone. Unless you are selfish.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14 2022, @07:54PM (3 children)
^^Found the racist!
(Really, dude, three sequential posts to tell us what a looser you are is a little excessive.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14 2022, @07:57PM (2 children)
So you don't have an actual argument. Just a bunch of hand waiving.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14 2022, @08:26PM (1 child)
Do you cheer on BLM? Or did you get mad at Kapernick taking a knee? Do you support teaching historic racism and how it has become systemic across many aspects of US society? Do you support measures to try and prevent racism in job interviews? Do you suppirt social programs to help disadvantaged people to be successful members of society, or do you think health and education are the individual's responsibility? Do you support women's rights over their own bodies, or are you anti-freedom?
Pretty sure we can make some assumptions about your replies and they aren't good. If you think CRT is anti-white racism then you're gonna have a real bad time defending your positions here because then it is simply "don't mess with my white privilege or make me face uncomfortable truths." If you do support minorities and want to fix systemic racism then we all would like to hear alternatives, unless any of the above questions triggered you, then you're just another bad faith persecution fetishist that doesn't actually respect American values.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14 2022, @08:39PM
If someone doesn't want to study hard and they don't want to eat healthy and they decide to smoke, drink, and do drugs then, to that extent, it is their responsibility. They should bear the consequences of their bad decisions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14 2022, @08:17PM
Oh no cringey misogynerd!
Now with all your wisdom explain equal qualifications getting unequal pay.
Or is nothing the fault of bigots because MLK solved racism and women are allowed to vote? /sarcam
If you can solve existing problems then you get to complain, if not then kindly keep your pearl clutching to yourself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14 2022, @05:01PM (1 child)
4. Her husband works 3 jobs to make up the difference.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14 2022, @05:28PM
But it's not fair. She should get the same pay even if she works far fewer hours. /sarcasm
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Monday March 14 2022, @05:55PM
The couple could investigate which other genders might earn more money and make the change.
(Tip: you can lower your BMI by simply choosing to be taller.)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14 2022, @04:41PM
How come the "pi day" separator is suddenly a "." when you normally use "/"?
And you are using the date the wrong way around, just FYI.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday March 14 2022, @05:48PM (1 child)
The first 144 digits of pi add up to the same value as the sum of the numbers on a Roulette wheel (eg, 1 to 36, plus the zero and double zero). Both sums happen to be 666.
1 Kings 7:23:
Now suppose Solomon had measured the diameter from outer edge to outer edge, but measured the circumference along the inside? He could come up with a circumference that is less than PI times the diameter. How thick would the metal wall have to be?
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(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Tuesday March 15 2022, @01:30PM
A Piece of Asimov Pi [mcgrew.info]
Impeach Donald Palpatine and his sidekick Elon Vader