Math weirdness
Posted by Dan on May 26th, 2009
2009
May 26
I saw the above equation on the net. Is this really true? Yes, it’s easy enough to verify. Are there any other oddities like this? This is a much harder question. Sounds like a job for Wolfram Alpha! Alpha is the new and much-hyped “computational knowledge engine”. It’s not always easy to ask Alpha a question that it can answer, but when you do, the results are impressive. In this case, it turns out that 666 / 34780 = (6 * 6 * 6) / (3 * 47 * 80).
