verzali on Pi squared is nearly 10

I remember discovering that pi x 10^7 is very close to the number of seconds in a year while at uni.

One of my tutors was convinced this had to be more than coincidence, but I always figured it was just chance and a nice but sometimes useful shortcut...

pansa2 2mo

I always liked the fact that 10! (10 factorial) is exactly the number of seconds in six weeks.

  6 weeks * 7 days * 24 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds:

    6 * 7 * 24 * 60 * 60
  = 6 * 7 * (3 * 8) * (4 * 5 * 3) * (3 * 2 * 10)
  = 6 * 7 * 3 * 8 * 4 * 5 * (3 * 3) * 2 * 10
  = 6 * 7 * 3 * 8 * 4 * 5 * 9 * 2 * 10
  = 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 * 6 * 7 * 8 * 9 * 10

tzs 2mo

You might be able to send someone down an amusing (to observers) rabbit hole of wrongness by telling them it is not exact because Earth’s orbit is not perfectly circular.

GTP 2mo

You're such an evil person :D

verzali 2mo

Hah, that would be hilarious

simondotau 2mo

It cannot be anything but coincidence. While 365.25 days in a year is physics, a day consisting of 86,400 seconds is an entirely arbitrary human construct.

Hnrobert42 2mo

Get enough numbers, accept wide error bars, and some of them are going to overlap.

mikhailfranco 2mo

and the Earth's orbital diameter is 10^3 light seconds

so the Earth's orbital velocity is 10^-4 c

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