i think pi is pretty cool

[minxnim]

I like it because it fits into everything. like, balloons! Grandfather clocks… and it’s also such an enigma because on the one hand, it’s so OBVIOUS, like It’s just the ratio of a circle's circumference divided by its diameter. On the other hand… It’s been calculated out to a million digits! It’s so pretty because it’s endless and also, not only does it rule with circles, it can totally exist without them…. and it’s irrational.

 

[xfer]

you sound like an insane jew.

 

[minxnim]

i am a fully sane mongrel thank you.

 

[xfer]

I like fractal stuff for the same reason, actually. Like, you can accurately represent icebergs and stuff in art just by using a computer-iterated math equation? AWESOME!

 

[xfer]

and p.s. preppy you are to fully sane as Joerg Haider is to mongrel.

 

[minxnim]

second up to pi is fibonacci and his rabbits!

 

[minxnim]

(i admit i'm not sane but that happens to all innovators!)

 

[FrostGiant]

Pi aint not bad. I especially like apple or cherry. Mmmmmmm.... Pi.

 

[xfer]

pfeh. shawn fanning was a totally sane BU fratboy!

 

[VangelicSurgeon]

will someone please explain fibonacci to me?

 

[xfer]

fibonacci is rad. like golden-ratio rad. i don't fully get the WHYS behind it, though.

 

[VangelicSurgeon]

i really like Chemistry's "the mole"

 

[minxnim]

6.02x10^23!!!
anyway, josh, there are many aspects of the work fibonacci did. here is a nutshell:
The Fibonacci numbers are 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ... (add the last two to get the next)
The golden section numbers are ±0·61803 39887... and ±1·61803 39887...
The golden string is 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 ...
a sequence of 0s and 1s which is closely related to the Fibonacci numbers and the golden section.

 

[VangelicSurgeon]

::scratches head::

 

[minxnim]

sorry... i thought you were asking for the #'S? well, i'd like to explain it but i dont think i would have time right now at work. but you can look at this?

http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibnat.html

 

[VangelicSurgeon]

hmmm. pretty coo, but Pi is definitly cooler.

 

[minxnim]

yea pi is cooler definitely but fibonacci is really neat because it is so coherent with nature. like it almost DEFINES nature (or any sort of order therein) i remember my grandfather showing it to me and showing me a sunflower when i was reallllllly little and i was totally like THIS RULES!

 

[azal]

hey dudes

check out Tool's song "lateralus"

the syllables of the verses are in the fibonacci sequence.

The song speaks of spirals.....and I read on this site that if you follow the golden ratio and connect some kind of angles (not a math homo obviously) you get perfect spirals...it's pretty tripped out.

 

[xfer]

This is the golden ratio/spiral thing.

 

[azal]

here's the lyrics

Lateralus

this part uses the pattern....

Black
then
white are
all i see
in my infancy.
red and yellow then came to be,
reaching out to me.
lets me see.
there is
so
much
more and
beckons me
to look thru to these
infinite possibilities.
as below, so above and beyond, I imagine
drawn outside the lines of reason.
Push the envelope.
Watch it bend.





and this is the rest of the song...

I embrace my desire to
I embrace my desire to
feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow
to feel inspired to fathom the power, to witness the beauty,
to bathe in the fountain,
to swing on the spiral
to swing on the spiral
to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human.

With my feet upon the ground I move myeslf between the sounds and open wide to suck it in.
I feel it move across my skin.
I'm reaching up and reaching out. I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me.
what ever will bewilder me.
And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been.
We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.