Let's Explore: 137

[PyromanDan]

[QUOTE=Nextil;22348238][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/214529/Photos/03-06-2010%2017-48-33.png[/img][/QUOTE]
Because everything is spelled as it is pronounced :downs:
Its still spelled "Pi".
Hell just look two lines above the one you highlighted!

[Amez]

Is there any relation with Cesium 137? Or just a coincidence?

[Rasrap Smurf]

[QUOTE=creefer;22345448]ah 1.618
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1g7AYOHvoU[/media]

They don't really go into depth explaining it in this video but this ratio is EVERYWHERE.[/QUOTE]

It's (1+sqrt(5))/2.

And the spiral on those shell fossils don't have to do with the golden spiral, although both are logarithmic.

[Nextil]

[QUOTE=PyromanDan;22348278]Because everything is spelled as it is pronounced :downs:
Its still spelled "Pi".
Hell just look two lines above the one you highlighted![/QUOTE]

That's not what I was responding to.

[QUOTE=Un.Hxx.Aé;22345721]A+, would read again if it weren't for the fact that you misspelled Pi. [B]It isn't even pronounced like that.[/B][/QUOTE]

[Helari]

In my language everything is pronounced just like its written which seems pretty convenient if you know the language.

[FPChris]

1.21 GIGAWATTS?!

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7JwCUIY3Qo&feature=related[/media]

[sp]Totally Related[/sp]

[Zeke129]

[QUOTE=Fourm Shark;22348359]Scp-137 - [ACCESS DENIED]

[editline]10:31AM[/editline]

Holy shit![/QUOTE]

That just means someone hasn't made one for that number yet.
Make one yourself about an electron that doesn't conform to this law and they have to contain it for some reason. You'll look smart.

[Dr.Strangelove]

There are 10 types of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that do not.

[CoolCorky]

[QUOTE=Dr.Strangelove;22349368]There are 10 types of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that do not.[/QUOTE]

Totally relevant and insightful

[radioactive]

[QUOTE=CoolCorky;22349635]Totally relevant and insightful[/QUOTE]

There are 10 types of people in the world, those that get the joke and those that don't.

[Quinn]

[QUOTE=Cally;22348052]In base 10, you can use the digits 0-9, meaning that once you get to the number over 9, you ad a step and then revert back to 0, i.e 10.

In base-2 on the other hand, you can only use the digits 1 and 0, so every time you get to the number that is over 1 you have to ad a step.

A binary number could look like this:

00000

if you want to make it easier for yourself, you can think of it like this:

00000
86421

The digit in the lower row shows the value of the digit in the upper row.
Now, if we add one, we get:

00001
86421

i.e, 1

if we add 1 to that, it will look like this:

00010
86421

i.e, 2

00011, the number you asked about is 3 (1+2). If you add 00001 (1) to three, you get 4, i.e 00100.

I hope that cleared it up somewhat. It might not be the best explanation, i'm neither a mathematician nor a teacher.[/QUOTE]

Yes thank you that helped alot more but i still dont completely understand it, I'll look it up on my own time though. Thank you.

[Rasrap Smurf]

[QUOTE=Cally;22348052]
The digit in the lower row shows the value of the digit in the upper row.
Now, if we add one, we get:

00001
86421

i.e, 1

if we add 1 to that, it will look like this:

00010
86421

i.e, 2

[/QUOTE]

Don't you mean 16 8 4 2 1, not 86421?

[Seppe]

[QUOTE=radioactive;22349838]There are 10 types of people in the world, those that get the joke and those that don't.[/QUOTE]

ah I belong to the group that gets it, after reading the whole thread again!

[Lord_Skellig]

[QUOTE=CoolCorky;22344087]It would only be 137 in base-10 number systems, which we can't guarantee alien species use. :science:[/QUOTE]

It would always be irrational though

1/137 that is, not 138

[kybalt]

The answer to life, the universe, and everything... = 137?

[rathat48]

[QUOTE=Un.Hxx.Aé;22345721]A+, would read again if it weren't for the fact that you misspelled Pi. It isn't even pronounced like that.[/QUOTE]

Ehh... yes he did spell it wrong, but it is pronounced Pie, [B]have you been saying it like pee!?[/B]

[radioactive]

[QUOTE=Seppe;22351324]ah I belong to the group that gets it, after reading the whole thread again![/QUOTE]

It is a Mathematical joke.

[CowGuy]

[QUOTE=radioactive;22349838]There are 10 types of people in the world, those that get the joke and those that don't.[/QUOTE]

I'm pretty sure he got the joke, it's just that binary has nothing to do with 137. If he didn't, the joke is that 10 in binary is 2.

[Upgrade123]

Fuck 137, 138 is the shit now.

[[Snow//Crash]]

[QUOTE=Rasrap Smurf;22351175]Don't you mean 16 8 4 2 1, not 86421?[/QUOTE]

Oh shit. I was half asleep when i wrote that.

[editline]05:56AM[/editline]

Fix'd. Kind of.

[billeh!]

[QUOTE=someguy0;22347184]he couldn't of been that smart he should of just divided 137 by pi.[/QUOTE]

I know you're joking but I do hope you know Pi is an irrational number.

[Ali121]

It's Planck's constant not Plank's constant. Just saying.

[billeh!]

[QUOTE=Ali121;22366299]It's Planck's constant not Plank's constant. Just saying.[/QUOTE]

I spelled it like that, but spellcheck disagreed so I decided to go with spellcheck. Which was wrong, apparently.

[BmB]

[QUOTE=Kyklis;22345536]A base 5 system is weird, but since we have a base-10 system it's easy to show what a base-5 would look like. Counting would go:

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 [b]Add 1 to base[/b]
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20 [b]Add 1 to base[/b]
20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 30 [b] etc. etc.[/b]

It looks weird as hell, but it's easy to understand. 10 in a base-5 is 5 in a base-10, 20 = 10, etc.[/QUOTE]

D'ni numbers are base 5, it's awesome.

[pebkac]

[QUOTE=CoolCorky;22344087]It would only be 137 in base-10 number systems, which we can't guarantee alien species use. :science:[/QUOTE]

137 is still the same number in different number systems, it's just written with different digits.

What i mean is that the quantity is still the same, no matter which number system you use. I'll use 137 dots for an example:

.........................................................................................................................................=.........................................................................................................................................
137(base10)=1022(base5)

[abcpea]

[QUOTE=Paravin;22347126]e=MC...doh' let me get my notepad[/QUOTE]

it is a starcraft reference :ms:

[pebkac]

To all the people who don't understand how different number systems work, i'll try to explain it here.

Base 10 is based on the powers of 10.
Let's take the number 123456789 for example.
Counting from right to left, the first digit is the quantity of ones: 10^0=1, 9*1=9
The second digits represents the quantity of tens in the number: 10^1=10, 8*10=80
The third number is hundreds: 10^2=100, 7*100=700
Fourth number is thousands: 10^3=1000, 6*1000=6000
etc.

When you add all those numbers up, you get 100000000+20000000+3000000+400000+50000+6000+700+80+9=123456789

Base 5 is based on the powers of 5, and you can write any number with only 5 digits: 0,1,2,3,4.
102434(base 5)=4*5^0+3*5^1+4*5^2+2*5^3+0*5^4+1*5^5=4*1+3*5+4*25+2*125+0*625+1*3125=4+15+100+250+0+3125=3494

Same goes for other bases, in base n the first digit represents the quantity of n^0, the second digit n^1, the third n^2, then n^3, etc.

[Un.Hxx.Aé]

[QUOTE=rathat48;22358275]Ehh... yes he did spell it wrong, but it is pronounced Pie, [B]have you been saying it like pee!?[/B][/QUOTE]

Yup, but I use the Metric System so it's okay.