Showing posts with label math. Show all posts
Showing posts with label math. Show all posts

Friday, May 6, 2011

Geometric translations

Three main things you can do to a shape:

translation reflection rotation

I can't believe translation really counts as a change, but okay.

Trees reduce religions
Trolls require ranges
Trucks ruin roadblocks

Thursday, May 5, 2011

SI Prefixes for numbers less than one

Just in case you want to think about really tiny numbers:

deci centi milli micro nano pioc femto atto zepto yocto

Distasteful cyan moral messy nuggets prune full allergic zealous youths

"Yocto" is 10 to the -24th power, aka one quadrillionth, aka 0.000000000000000000000001. So small, yet still not zero.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

SI Prefixes

The system prefixes for 10 raised to every 3rd power between 1012 and 10-12 are:

Tera giga mega kilo milli micro nano pico

Tiny green mad keys measure mainly necessary people
The gigantic mean kites manipulate militant normal programs