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View Poll Results: Which is your favorite special number? e or pi?
e. It's also the sound I make when someone pokes me in the stomach 6 26.09%
pi. It's greek. And it's chalk full of Jazy references! Er...pie-full. 5 21.74%
I like the number 42 because it's the meaning of life. 4 17.39%
Infinity. Gazillion bajillion + 1. Beat that b*tches. 3 13.04%
Googolplex. 1 followed by a hundred 0's. Almost like infinity but better because it's REAL! 0 0%
OtherI don't like numbers. They're gross! And this poll is ewwwwwwwwww! 2 8.70%
Other 3 13.04%
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Old 02-24-2005, 10:27 PM   #1
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Default For Real: Which is the better special number: e or pi?
Yay! I know all of you mathematician AGers were just dying for this poll. For those of you who don't know:

e is 2.718281828459045. "e" stands for Euler's number.

pi is 3.1415926535897932384626....

For a serious discussion of this topic, go here:
http://www.discussanything.com/forum...p/t-70782.html

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And yes, I realize this is a worthless poll. But you love it so much!

Edit: DAMMIT, It's actually GOOGOl, without the plex that is 1 followed by 100 0's. No plex. And DAMMIT. Get rid of the other in option six. Bah!
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Old 02-24-2005, 10:37 PM   #2
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1) You can't confuse e with a food product
But you can confuse it with a drug.

Only irrational people would like those numbers.
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I'll go for pi, just because its Greek

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Old 02-24-2005, 11:50 PM   #4
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I'm going for pi, because it makes a great dessert.
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Old 02-25-2005, 12:01 AM   #5
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I'm going for pi, because it makes a great dessert.
You have "Pie" for dessert?

Or is that as in: "Apple pie, or ferret pie"

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I've never had ferret pi, is it any good?
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Old 02-25-2005, 12:36 AM   #7
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I personally like e better. It's fascinating how it just happens to be limit (n->infinity) of (1 + 1/n)^n

pi is cool, too.
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What's the name of that "God's proportion number" or something, from "The DaVinci Code"? I thought that was cool!
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Tastes like chicken

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Old 02-25-2005, 02:58 AM   #10
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e, of course. pi is so cliche.

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What's the name of that "God's proportion number" or something, from "The DaVinci Code"? I thought that was cool!
My guess (haven't read the book) would be you mean the golden proportion, or greek phi = (1+sqrt(5))/2, where sqrt stands for square root. Very cool number indeed.

EDIT: Indeed, this site says it starred in Da Vinci Code.
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Old 02-25-2005, 04:45 AM   #11
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e, no question! Anyone that says otherwise is a fool

i isn't bad either though. Not terribly elegant but at least it's imaginary. Can't say that about too many numbers
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Sorry, but I like i better! It equals the square root of -1. More mysterious, see?

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Where's the love for c?

My vote goes to c.
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Sorry, but I like i better!
i is terrific, too. But, without question, they become the best when all three get together:

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I voted 42.

But I also like "XYZZY"


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Old 02-25-2005, 12:18 PM   #17
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I've always been Partial to I(square root of -1)

Imaginary numbers Wooooo!
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I've never been able to fully grasp the imaginary & complex numbers. I probably skipped those classes.

I voted for e.
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I'm taking a Pi.
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