Comments on: The Council of Fifty (Minus Forty) http://www.nine-moons.com/2007/12/18/the-council-of-fifty-minus-forty/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:32:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mark B. http://www.nine-moons.com/2007/12/18/the-council-of-fifty-minus-forty/#comment-35002 Mark B. Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:25:09 +0000 http://www.nine-moons.com/2007/12/18/the-council-of-fifty-minus-forty/#comment-35002 Nice, Kaimi! Not quite as good as the story about Ramunajan, the Indian mathematical prodigy and G.H. Hardy, the English mathematician. Ramunajan was in hospital, on his deathbed. One day Hardy entered the room, he said "The taxi I rented today had number 1729. It looked rather a dull number" Ramanujan replied promptly "No Hardy No!. It is a very exciting number. It is the smalled positive integer that can be written as sum of two cubes in two different way." (That's 1 & 12 or 9 & 10, by the way.) But, for a law professor, not bad at all! Nice, Kaimi!

Not quite as good as the story about Ramunajan, the Indian mathematical prodigy and G.H. Hardy, the English mathematician.

Ramunajan was in hospital, on his deathbed. One day Hardy entered the room, he said “The taxi I rented today had number 1729. It looked rather a dull number”

Ramanujan replied promptly “No Hardy No!. It is a very exciting number. It is the smalled positive integer that can be written as sum of two cubes in two different way.”

(That’s 1 & 12 or 9 & 10, by the way.)

But, for a law professor, not bad at all!

]]> By: Kaimi http://www.nine-moons.com/2007/12/18/the-council-of-fifty-minus-forty/#comment-34987 Kaimi Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:54:41 +0000 http://www.nine-moons.com/2007/12/18/the-council-of-fifty-minus-forty/#comment-34987 Minus-forty is a fun number, because it's the one temperature that's identical in both Celsius and Farenheit. If you're at minus-forty F, you're also at minus-forty C. Minus-forty is a fun number, because it’s the one temperature that’s identical in both Celsius and Farenheit. If you’re at minus-forty F, you’re also at minus-forty C.

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