Here’s an easy one: 1+2-(3-4-5)*6*7*8-9

How about 1*(2+(3-4*(5/6-7))*8)*9

Or maybe 1+2345*6/7+8-9

Or (1-(23+4)*5)*(6/(7-8)-9

Maybe .1+23*(45+6*7)+8+.9

Even 1-(.2+(3+.4)*(5+67))*(.8-9)

If you love numbers and are excited about 2010, you’ll get a kick out of the cool 2010 page by Nadav Samet (surprise – he works for Google.)  (Thanks SMoody!)… Read more

I love numbers.  I was thinking about numbers and dates on my run yesterday.  Here’s a few fun ones for you.

101010 – On 10/10/2010 the answer the life, the universe, and everything will be revealed.

030309 – Isn’t it fun to have square root day be “prime square root day”?  How many of them are there in the 21st century?  How about 02/02/04, 03/03/09, 05/05/25, 07/07/49.  That would be five.  So there are a prime number of prime square root days.

090909 – Number 9, Number 9, Number 9 is the day that the Beatles version of Rock Band is released.  As a special bonus it’s the second day of my Q3 off the grid vacation.

Got any other good ones for me?… Read more

There are so many reasons to love Valentine’s Day.  My favorite is that on 2/14/09 the Unix Time will be 1234567890.  This happens at exactly 00:31:30 CET.  Yeah – it’s a little bit of a cheat since CET = GMT+1 and – correspondingly – it will still be 2/13/09 in the United States.  Just another good reason to go to Paris for Valentine’s Day.  (Thanks ScottM).… Read more

Yes – those are the lyrics – buried at about 2:05.  Who said mathematicians don’t know how to rock.

Thanks Ryan.  Cornell just went up a notch in my book.… Read more

Exactly 20,000 miles.  What numerical fun!… Read more

Thanks Jake for the reminder.  4 8 15 16 23 42 to you.…

Ryan reminded me that we get to experience 11:11:11 twice today – which happens to be 11/11.  I’m looking forward to 2011… Read more

In Europe, today is 2/8/6, tomorrow is 3/8/6, Friday is 4/8/6, and Saturday is Pentium.Technorati Tags: numbers, numerology

Ryan McIntyre pointed me at a car that gets 3.14k miles per gallon.  Now, if it only ran on pi.… Read more

I kept telling myself I wouldn’t do this, but I just can’t help myself.  It’s 6:06am (according to my computer) on 6/6/06.  The Omen is in theaters today.  FeedBurner is ranked 666 on Alexa.  666 is a hot tag on Technorati.  You can watch 666 videos on YouTube.  People are wishing the anti-christ happy birthday on the web and reminding us that evil is just live spelled backwards.  Hell, Michigan is having a big party today.  There are 128 photos on Flickr about 06/06/06 (of course, 128 is a really pretty number also.)  Google came out with a spreadsheet today to help you play with numbers.… Read more

A few weeks ago, I got a note from Kunal Anand that he was doing a project to create a visualization of my del.icio.us tags and their intersections.  I gave Kunal my del.icio.us info and he sent me the following picture yesterday.

I asked him what it meant (besides being pretty) and this is what he said.

• Each dot represents a tag (aka a node)
• Each line represents an intersection between tags
• The center of the visualization (denoted by a gradient), represents the heavy set of intersections

It looks like I’ve got a decent amount of intersections. … Read more

This morning, I noticed on Will Herman’s blog that on Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06 (at least in the US).  I plan to be awake to see it.  After three people sent me the same fact today (thanks!) I decided my obsession with numbers is starting to infect the universe (or maybe it’s the other way around.)… Read more

The whole world knows that Apple officially announced it’s first Intel-based products today.  Simultaneously, Apple stock closed at a price of $80.86 (it has traded up to $81.89 in the aftermarket, but that doesn’t count.)  I once had a Compaq Deskpro with an Intel 8086 microprocessor.  What a delicious number trick – I wonder how Jobs got Nasdaq to clear the final trade of the day at $80.86.… Read more

I love numbers.  Consider it one of my weird predilections.  I’m in Room 214 in a hotel in Fairbanks, Alaska tonight.  When I told Amy my room number, she said “what a great number.”  The reasons are:

• 21 is the first two digits
• 14 is the second two digits
• 7 is the sum of all three digits
• 2/14 is valentines day

Yes – I know we are a strange, bizarre, and twisted couple.  But – isn’t that what makes it fun?… Read more

By now, everyone has probably heard that Google is doing a secondary offering and selling 14.2m shares of stock.  It turns out they are actually selling 14,159,265 shares.  Of course, anyone who loves numbers like I do will immediately recognize this as the first eight digits of pi after the decimal point.  What a delicious cheap thrill for all the numerologists in the world… Read more