The OFFICIAL Unofficial Achewood Message Board
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
May 23, 2012, 02:36:31 AM

Login with username, password and session length
Search:     Advanced search
@achewood Yo mama's so crass and low, she puts chocolate pieces into her mouth while she is still chewing up the previous chocolate pieces.
186525 Posts in 6032 Topics by 918 Members
Latest Member: tha_snazzle
* Home Help Login Register
The OFFICIAL Unofficial Achewood Message Board  |  Trivial Pursuits  |  History (Moderators: Nabubrush, AlohaDawg, Bozack)  |  Topic: The world's greatest Equation 0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. « previous next »
Pages: [1] 2 Go Down Print
Author Topic: The world's greatest Equation  (Read 2864 times)
AlohaDawg
Moderator
LAZARUS, Tasseled Loafer of the Powerful


Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 79
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 4183


Crawlin' back to prosperity


View Profile
« on: October 06, 2004, 09:53:01 PM »
Onstad is ahead of his time

Wow.
Logged
V-Adore
Guest
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2004, 11:07:50 PM »
Perhaps I should be saddened that I actually have an opinion about this.

"Greatest equation ever? It had better be e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0, bitch."
Logged
AlohaDawg
Moderator
LAZARUS, Tasseled Loafer of the Powerful


Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 79
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 4183


Crawlin' back to prosperity


View Profile
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2004, 11:51:21 PM »
I've always been partial to PV=nrT as well.
Logged
V-Adore
Guest
« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2004, 12:55:59 AM »
mmmm, universal gas laws.

F=ma is also an undeniable classic, although high-school chemistry may have soured me on it forever.
Logged
AlohaDawg
Moderator
LAZARUS, Tasseled Loafer of the Powerful


Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 79
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 4183


Crawlin' back to prosperity


View Profile
« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2004, 01:39:38 AM »
although not an equation, 6.02 x 10^23 has always been very intriguing to me also.
Logged
Carlos del Vaca
The Mayor
VIP
Mom-Mom's Weepin' Eye
*

Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 1211
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 3647


Greetings from Banana Town


View Profile WWW
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2004, 02:59:30 AM »
I'd like to vote for the Quadratic Equation, please.

Now, if I could just remember it.
Logged
My friends call me the Mayor.
My enemies don't call me anything.  'Cuz they're all dead.
jay-ell
Den Mother
VIP
Philippe is standing on it.
*

Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 341
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 6784



View Profile
« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2004, 03:04:00 AM »
Insofar as math goes, we've never been on good terms -- my brother is a high school math teacher, which generally soured me on the whole thing -- I'd have to go with a^2 + b^2 = c^2, just because it *sounds* like it would work.  I don't know how, or why, it actually works, but it seems to make sense in some sort of fundamental way.  

I remember being taught this in school, and thinking, "Well, of course!  Because if all the angles add up to 180, then...no wait...squaring everything would...but then you'd...erg...ugh...igg... :boom: "
Logged
"I always hear 'punch me in the face' when you're speaking. But it's usually subtext." -- Martin Freeman as John Watson
Gimpson
King of the Make-Outs


Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 16
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 588



View Profile WWW
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2004, 11:54:24 AM »
Quote from: "V-Adore"
Perhaps I should be saddened that I actually have an opinion about this.

"Greatest equation ever? It had better be e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0, bitch."


I second this.  When I was undergoing a period of weight loss, I told myself I would get a tattoo if I lost 50 pounds and stayed under the goal for three months.  I made the goal, but didn't stay, so no tattoo.

If I had gotten the tattoo, it was going to be this equation.
Logged
Va
Dr. Andretti


Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 7
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 435



View Profile WWW
« Reply #8 on: October 07, 2004, 03:18:16 PM »
Quote from: "V-Adore"
"Greatest equation ever? It had better be e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0, bitch."


Oh, ya beat me to it!
Logged
Va
Dr. Andretti


Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 7
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 435



View Profile WWW
« Reply #9 on: October 07, 2004, 03:22:03 PM »
Quote from: "AlohaDawg"
although not an equation, 6.02 x 10^23 has always been very intriguing to me also.


I believe that's Avagadro's number, yes?  The number of molecules in a mole of whatever?

Quote from: "jldunston"
I remember being taught this in school, and thinking, "Well, of course! Because if all the angles add up to 180, then...no wait...squaring everything would...but then you'd...erg...ugh...igg..."


That equation relates the sides of a right triangle, not the angles of an arbitrary triangle.  Perhaps that is the source of your confusion.
Logged
jay-ell
Den Mother
VIP
Philippe is standing on it.
*

Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 341
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 6784



View Profile
« Reply #10 on: October 07, 2004, 04:43:57 PM »
Quote from: "Va"
Quote from: "jldunston"
I remember being taught this in school, and thinking, "Well, of course! Because if all the angles add up to 180, then...no wait...squaring everything would...but then you'd...erg...ugh...igg..."


That equation relates the sides of a right triangle, not the angles of an arbitrary triangle.  Perhaps that is the source of your confusion.


This, I know.  But squaring everything and then unsqaring the answer just seems so strange to me, that even though the equation itself sounds like common sense, when you take a closer look, you realize that whoever figured this out (probably somebody famous, I don't remember) was seriously hardcore.  And probably experimenting with drugs.  

Deceptively complex.  That's the phrase I was looking for yesterday.
Logged
"I always hear 'punch me in the face' when you're speaking. But it's usually subtext." -- Martin Freeman as John Watson
AugustWest
Over Easy
Philosopher King
Philippe is standing on it
*

Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 587
Online Online

Gender: Male
Posts: 9175


Bulbous, also tapered.


View Profile
« Reply #11 on: October 07, 2004, 04:47:37 PM »
Quote from: "jldunston"
whoever figured this out (probably somebody famous, I don't remember) was seriously hardcore.  And probably experimenting with drugs.  


That would be Pythagoras.
Logged
Infinitely vast, infinitely detailed.
jay-ell
Den Mother
VIP
Philippe is standing on it.
*

Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 341
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 6784



View Profile
« Reply #12 on: October 07, 2004, 04:49:33 PM »
Quote from: "AugustWest"
Quote from: "jldunston"
whoever figured this out (probably somebody famous, I don't remember) was seriously hardcore.  And probably experimenting with drugs.  


That would be Pythagoras.


The smacking sound you're hearing is my open palm connecting with my forehead.  

 :dunce:

Thanks, August.  

I told you math wasn't my thing!
Logged
"I always hear 'punch me in the face' when you're speaking. But it's usually subtext." -- Martin Freeman as John Watson
jough
God's Own Dick
Administrator
Philippe is standing on it.


Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 145
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 6840


If you've got the time, we've got El Guapo.


View Profile WWW
« Reply #13 on: October 07, 2004, 06:09:04 PM »
Yeah, the Pythagorean Theorem is hard fuck*ng core.

It's not my favourite equation, though.

That would be:

Xn + yn = zn has no non-zero integer solutions for x, y and z when n > 2.

ROCK ON, FERMAT.
Logged
NEW! Clean Livin' | T-Shirts
What a Jough Wants. | poetry archives
jough
God's Own Dick
Administrator
Philippe is standing on it.


Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 145
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 6840


If you've got the time, we've got El Guapo.


View Profile WWW
« Reply #14 on: October 07, 2004, 06:13:21 PM »
Please also note that I have added the "sup" element to the list of acceptable HTML due to this thread.

So go crazy with your super-script.
Logged
NEW! Clean Livin' | T-Shirts
What a Jough Wants. | poetry archives
Pages: [1] 2 Go Up Print 
The OFFICIAL Unofficial Achewood Message Board  |  Trivial Pursuits  |  History (Moderators: Nabubrush, AlohaDawg, Bozack)  |  Topic: The world's greatest Equation « previous next »
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.14 | SMF © 2006-2011, Simple Machines LLC Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!