I don't know, I think it could have used a more vigorous fisking. He's letting it off easy for cheap ideological purposes.

I agree. That was way too much fawning. There are other numbers that better deserve the recognition, but don't get it because they aren't celebrities.

I don't know. Pi has star quality. "e" doesn't. What the hell is "e"? I sit there, watching "e," unmoved. It's like a numerical Keanu Reeves.

You guys may dig the endless repretition of repeating decimals or absurdly large products of mass / light formulas. But I think it's the oh-so-fey voguishness of the symbology that's got you rooked. "Ohhh, he's just 'e'... It sums up his eternal essence in a single vowel..." "The mysticism of the greek alphabet evokes an age of thinkers..." Pah. Gimme old school numbers like "Plank's Constant." Now that's a man's number. It just demands to be taken seriously... it's constant... and it's a Plank. Deal with it, Biatch!

My favorite is i, because not only is it irrational, it's also very egocentric.

My favorite is i
My problem with this one is that our calculus teacher would never allow us to express "i" as a print character. We always had to use the curly-cutie cursive "i" with the loop that makes it look like a small cursive "l." (Something about "i" looking too much like "1"... please.) And so the expression, always a favorite a French mathematicians, became inextricably Frenchy to me. Every time I could here it speaking in my mind in a Pepe Le Peu voice, "I am the crazy wacky irrational, no? I warp the staid perceptions of calculability n'est-ce pas?" Always hated that fucker.

Why did they arbitrarily call a halt at one million? Count every digit!

Why did they arbitrarily call a halt at one million? Count every digit!

I believe that was Al Gore's rallying cry.

He claimed that all of the "minority digits" (1, 3, 8, and 9) were struck from Pi by a faulty "digit purge."

Yes, a purge! The 100%-polyester short-sleeved digital brownshirts with pocket protectors have been unleashed!

i is imaginary, not irrational.

BTW, "Blog Québécois" is quite funny. (For those unfamiliar with Canadian politics: there's a federal-level party called the Bloc Québécois.)

Fine, give credit to the numbers; but let's not forget the FORMULAS (formulae?) that give them purpose, and a stage upon which to strut.

Great, Ron C just totally ruined the letter/number for me. Damn you Ron C, and damn the French.

And damn the nameless blogger who pointed out that I don't know what i really means.

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