30 ‘Useless Yet Interesting Calculations’ To Get Your Mind Reeling (New Posts)

I would be more concerned that they are not making the pizzas/dough fresh if a certain size was not available.

cant tell if this is a "and then everyone clapped and i own the company now" or a "huh. maybe math isnt useless" moment (math is important, but not when your teaching me that John has 1,064 siblings)

Yeah, so I'd have told him to leave my restaurant and get a pizza Pi elsewhere.

MIT hosted NASA's Annual Conference on Manual Control in 1982. Several of the people attending had dinner in a restaurant near the campus. They discussed one of the papers over dinner. The waiter overheard part of this and asked some questions. The diners tried to explain things as simply as possible. The waiter said it sounded like what we were trying to say was something like this, then he picked up a paper napkin and started writing equations. The owner later explained that he had wanted to be an engineer, but could not afford it. Now that he had money, he only hired graduate students.

And then everyone clapped

Round two of the measurement wars:- imperial washing machines vs metric bananas. Yaay!

It's an alien landing site, thought everyone knew that.

Now that you brought it up, Devil's Tower DOES look like a stump. Sadly, it isn't petrified wood. Basalt core of long extinct volcano.

Not washing machines, banana

I have been to Devil's Tower twice, but I did not see any aliens. It is such a beautiful part of the country. It is close to the Black Hills in South Dakota, home to Deadwood, Mt Rushmore and much more.

That's 36.597 pounds of almonds - take the asprin.

Shh, you're spoiling the placebo effect.

Maybe that's why I love almonds so much!

This is like reading a foreign language

Just eat the medicine

It looks like Titanic to me, and assumed he is going to sink somewhere, and badly.

They are obviously not semicircles though. They look more like a sine wave. So according to some calculations I found, the length of a sine wave from 0 to 2pi is about 7.64 So a two layer wall would be 4pi=12.57 So you can save almost 40% of bricks using a sine wave.

As someone living in England, I've never seen these. Where are they?

And I wasted my time studying political science !

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Less than a double leaf wall of course, but less than a single straight wall with brick piers? You'd have to do the math.

...or the Earth would be about12 car's long on circumference, or a little under four cars in diameter. If it was indeed that small, I think it would be rather easy to settle the debate about its shape (though it shouldn't be that hard as it is, but apparently some people are a special combination of stupid and stubborn)

Just when I get use to bananas someone has to throw washing machines into the mix.

A picture is worth 1000 words or 17 math equations, but I put it at about 43º, so: 40,000km / 360º * 43º = 4,777.78 km, and that's for just the wheelbase. Let's call the car 5,500 km long. That's about 8,019,000 US standard 27" washing machines. Untitled-6...b56a94.jpg

Because you’re SOBER. dipshït !

Finally, some IMPORTANT maths!

Bouche likes to sleep on my phone, because it's warm. Unfortunately, I'm usually trying to use the phone at the time. To be honest, she almost always wins.

It doesn't matter. With that sweet face this fluff ball can walk anywhere they want.

Did that cat belong to Hit…..! Never mind !

Every time my cat jumps up to see me, he steps on my keyboard. He invariably hits my CAPS LOCK.

They're weird comparisons because the one on the left is a meal on the go, and the one on the right most definitely is not. Not a practical or useful picture.