Proof That I'm A Math Geek

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Proof That I'm A Math Geek
11 comments | Posted by psychomatt 25 months ago

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One of the "Did you know" items prompted this.

The item: "If you add together all the numbers on a roulette wheel (1 to 36) the total is the mystical number 666"

I decided to test it, using an Excel spreadsheet. (For the detail-curious, I put 1, 2, and 3 in the first column, then used the expand bit to take it out to 100. Then in the second cell in the second column, I put sum($A$1:a2) and expanded that. The $ keeps those values the same, while the others change along with the cell involved.)

Anyway, adding the numbers 1-36 does, indeed give 666.

Here's the part that really makes me a math geek, though:
While looking through the list for "milestones" (100, 1000, etc), I noticed something & set a formula to test it out. There is a VERY easy formula to the the total of all numbers from 1 through any number: Top number squared PLUS that number, then divide that by two.

Sum(1:n) = ((n^2)+n)/2

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Bamber
Posted on Dec 29, 2007 at 03:55 AM
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I remember being taught that when I was 12.

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psychomatt
Posted on Dec 29, 2007 at 04:58 AM
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If we learned it in school, I completely forgot about it.

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bkvestal
Posted on Dec 29, 2007 at 09:17 AM
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I agree with psychomatt. If I learned that in school I probably just figured I wouldn't need it in real life so I just forgot it.

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konifur
Posted on Dec 29, 2007 at 09:32 AM
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i am confused again

i never learnt that ever and don`t want to.

hey! it wasn`t me!

forgive me i am discombobulated again.

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DebzPage
Posted on Jan 04, 2008 at 03:37 AM
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We musta' been having lunch that day

Were you the short kid with the brown eyes behind the bikesheds?

I learnt alot that day

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konifur
Posted on Jan 04, 2008 at 03:49 AM
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no i was the tall kid with a snotty nose .

hey! it wasn`t me!

forgive me i am discombobulated again.

i would not like be a member of a club who would have me as a member...Groucho
Marks.

T.U.R.D. (because I'm a farter)

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DebzPage
Posted on Jan 04, 2008 at 05:30 AM
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Eeewweee, yucky, it wasn't you then

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minodude
Posted on Dec 29, 2007 at 03:40 PM
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i still think e is cooler than that!

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alex657684
Posted on Dec 31, 2007 at 09:12 PM
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as lnog as you don't set out to prove Fermat's Theorem, you're not a math geek.

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Bamber
Posted on Jan 04, 2008 at 03:41 AM
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Which one?

· Fermat's last theorem
· Fermat's little theorem
· Fermat's theorem on sums of two squares
· Fermat's theorem (stationary points)
· Fermat's principle

(This comment was modified on Jan 04, 2008 03:43 AM)

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alex657684
Posted on Jan 04, 2008 at 06:56 AM
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wel, I think we know who the real amth geek is around here

I believe it woul;d be his last theorem - the one that was solved just a couple years ago.