Thursday, December 31, 2009

This is what I like to see

Thu
Snow
-1° | -4°
Fri
Snow Showers
3° | -4°
Sat
Snow
-2° | -6°
Sun
Snow Showers
1° | -3°

9 comments:

e said...

all the numbers there can be expressed as 2^n*3^m

e said...

Is that why you like to see it?

Anarchist Chossid said...

where n and m are...?

no, because it's promised to snow for the rest of the weekend. although i like math, i don't always see the world through the eyes of math. more often it's chassidus, neuroscience and programming.

Anarchist Chossid said...

(by my first question i mean that obviously they are not natural numbers, so then...?)

Anarchist Chossid said...

You remind me of my friend Binyomin Abroms, local Chemistry professor and chossid. One time we were standing at a bima, and I opened the Chumash at a certain number. He looked at it and said: good number. I thought at first it had something to do with Avogadro's number, but it turned out that this number was somehow interesting mathematically. I forget now how exactly it was interesting and what the number was (I wanna say it was 267 or 268).

Based on the fact that it was around Simchas Torah and it was the regular blue Chumash, I could probably figure out the number (and then the reason), but that would be an exercise in obsession that is even beyond me.

e said...

n and m are natural numbers

1=2^0*3^0
4=2^2*3^0
3=2^0*3^1

you get the pattern.

The truth is that I was wrong. All these numbers of of the form -2^n*3^m

So you like snow? why? Reminds you of the motherland?

Anarchist Chossid said...

ah. indeed too much beer.

yes. somehow i always liked snow. not enough of it in boston.

e said...

I retract what I wrote earlier. n and m cannot be natural numbers, since 0 is not a natural number.

e said...

aurgh!!! an inundation!