"Edition 22: The Language of the Universe"

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Star Trek & Physics Weekly

Edition 22: The Language of the Universe

 

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Edition 22:

-- The Language of the Universe --

In this weeks edition of Star Trek & Physics Weekly by Master Q we are going to look at some basic math. As I said it will not be complex. Just take a few minutes in reading this edition and try to do some of the math!

 

 

The questions (Q) are throughout this edition, please give them a try and post your answer

 

Q1: Here is an 18th Century nursery rhyme . . . . . (Can you answer it?)

As I was going to St. Ives,

I met a man with seven wives,

Every wife had seven sacks,

Every sack had seven cats,

Every cat had seven kits,

Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,

How many were going to St. Ives?

 

~~THE # ZERO~~

**ZERO: The absence of quantity

The # 0 is basically a neutral # between the negative #s on the left of it (on the real # line) and to the right of it positive #s.

Before the Mayans invented this # there was no # 0.

How would you write a # like 200, then? Or 202?

Well . . . we could just write 2 2 where there is a space (2_2), but that would be confusing because what if it was 2002: 2__2 or 200? So that does not really work. The best way would have be to use ROMAN NUMERALS.

 

~~BIG #S~~

Billion = 10^9

Trillion = 10^12

Quadrillion = 10^15

Quintillion = 10^18

Sextillion = 10^21

Octillion = 10^27

Nonillion = 140^36

Decillion = 10^33

Undecillion = 10^36

(Now I'm getting to the ones I just learned, but I don't know how to pronounce them all, LOL)

Duodecillion = 10^39

Tredecillion = 10^42

Quattuordecillion = 10^45

Quindecillion = 10^48

Sexdecillion = 10^51

Septendecillion = 10^54

Octodecillion = 10^57

Novemdecillion = 10^60

Vigintillion = 10^63

(I like to say theses 2 #s & I have said these 2 #s in other editions:)

Googol = 10^100

Googolplex = 10^googol (Now this # gets out of hand & sight)

 

 

~~PERFECT #s~~

**FACTOR: A # that divides evenly into another #

**PERFECT #: A # whose factors add up to itself.

For example 28 is a perfect # because the sum of all of its divisors equal the # it self.

(1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14 = 28)

Q2: First Perfect # = ???? (Try to find out- its between 0 - 10. Give it a try!)

2nd Perfect # = 28

3rd Perfect # = 496

4th Perfect # = 8,128

 

~~INFINITY~~

**INFINITY: A # that is endless or never ends

The symbol that represents it is a sideways "8."

 

 

--Probably posted in July 2002

 

That is a taste of edition 22

This edition I just took a few scattered [minor] topics and threw them together and as you can see it is pretty basic

 

 

I thought I would post this because of the list of #s and nursery rhyme

 

 

Master Q

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A very interesting poem. I remember hearing it somewhere once... But it never really states that all those people and animals are actually going to St. Ives, save for the one. So is this one of those "trick" questions, where it makes you think really hard, and then it turns out that the answer was really easy and you didn't have to do all of that hard thinking at all?

 

Like, "The Mississippi River is the longest river in the United States. How do you spell it?" And you stand there stuttering over 'S'es and 'P's and 'I's, but it turns out the answer is really "I-T."

 

Wow, those are some pretty big numbers. I wonder where numbers that high ever come in handy. They're kind of hard to comprehend! I guess some of them would be useful when measuring interstellar distances and things like that. But... googolplex... that's huge! I couldn't even imagine such a large number!

 

That's interesting about the perfect numbers... I didn't know that before. But I guess you're not counting the number itself as one of the factors... or else there would be no perfect numbers at all. Curious... I wonder why they chose to include one but omit the actual number. Do you know anything about that? I guess the first perfect number would be six, then. Interesting.

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(7^4)+(7^3)+(7^2)+(7) were going to the church