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Excellent. :thup:

Unicode and Hexadecimal. Cool. :cool::cool: I'll learn to use these in a sentence and impress my computer geek friends. One has been using linux for years, the other is the one always retreating to...

For real? Nice synchrocoinkydink.;)

Thanks. It was off-the-cuff and then seemed actually meaningful. ;)

Three out of one people are a trinity.

Here's some of what Twyman wrote about magic squares.





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Yeah. When I saw your link to this and I saw the 137, I almost posted it here.

But of course, you already knew about it and had already linked to it. :cool::meditating:

137 came up in the Twyman article I linked to in the Kryon thread Aianawa started. Related to the origins of playing cards, chess, and the Templars, the dates were 1307 and 1377.

Here's some more on 137.

Speaking of fractals, did you know you can randomly create a Sierpinski triangle? It would take a long time to do it by hand but all you'd need is paper, pen, ruler and a D6. (six sided die)

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Cocking talks about 3, 6, and 9. He still does presentations and I'm watching/listening to a couple. I think I'll start sharing some of his stuff in a thread once I'm done with this phase. It's...

I came across an interesting piece of reading called The Crystal by Mark Cocking.

Here's an excerpt:




Surrounding this bit is discussion of the number 2.732:

Maybe it'll come back in a dream.;)

I'm so glad you commented on this, Shadowself. I couldn't recall if you had touched on 137 in your six degrees thread. It sure had some fascinating stuff on numbers. I used to be good at...

From "The Mystery of 137":

"We know that the number is required to know how specific wavelengths of light interact in precise ways with atoms and how electromagnetic forces hold atoms together....

I thought this bit was interesting:

"A few years ago a new slant on this old problem emerged. John Webb and his colleagues at the University of New South Wales carried out an intensive study of...

We have alpha and phi, pyramids and tetrahedrons, and toruses. The Great Geometer indeed.

And to think, this whole time I thought the answer to everything was 42!

This is good stuff, Aianawa. Thanks for sharing.