Signature

Wednesday 9 November 2005 at 10:51 pm | In Articles | 4 Comments

Posters to forums often have signatures that are amusing and/or witty (though some are just plain daft). Few though are mathematical, but this one posted on Art Of Problem Solving’s Forum made me smile:

    The number you have dialled is imaginary. Please rotate your phone by 90 degrees and try again.

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  1. Hmm … this might seem like it doesn’t belong here, but if you are just learning math (nothing like this blog), try out these math problems.

    On a side note, what’s the next number in this series:

    1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55 …

    Anyone know the name of that series?

    Comment by dave — Saturday 19 November 2005 5:04 am #

  2. 89

    Comment by roystona — Saturday 3 December 2005 12:08 am #

  3. Fibonacci numbers? The next number would be 89

    Comment by A. Efird — Saturday 3 December 2005 8:55 pm #

  4. yep, fibonacci series … 89, 144, 233, …

    Comment by Dave — Monday 5 November 2007 6:49 pm #

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