24/7 Is Bigger Than Pi
January 21st 2012 21:09
No, really, it is. I did the math to find this out because, after all, the forward slash symbol is how the Internet tells us we want to do division.
If people meant "24 hours a day, 7 days a week," they'd write it that way, wouldn't they?
So 24/7 is 24 divided by 7, which is
3.428571428571428571428571428 571428571
42857142857142857142857142857 1428571
42857142857142857142857142857 1428571
42857142857142857142857142857 1428571
42857142857142857142857142857 1428571
42857142857142857142857142857 1428571
42857142857142857142857142857 1428571
42857142857142857142857142857 1428571
428571...
I think it goes on forever, but I ran out of pencils. Also, I finally noticed that it was repeating itself and I figured it would just keep doing that anyway.
Pi, on the other hand, is
3.141592653589793238462643383 27950288
41971693993751058209749445923 07816406
28620899862803482534211706798 21480865
13282306647093844609550582231 72535940
81284811174502841027019385211 05559644
62294895493038196442881097566 59334461
28475648233786783165271201909 14564856
69234603486104543266482133936 07260249
14127372458700660631558817488 15209209
62829254091715364367892590360 01133053
54882046652138414695194151160 94...
This number pi really goes on and on forever without repeating. The other day, I read where some guy actually computed pi to five trillion (yes, trillion) digits. He must have had a whole lot of pencils! Anyhow, he couldn't find that it ever started repeating itself like the number above.
Some people have way too much time on their hands.
Anyway, you can easily see that 24/7 = 3.42 something
and pi = 3.14 something,
which proves the hypothesis that 24/7 is bigger than pi.
I think in math, they call this a formal proof. Or a corollary. Or something.
So all those convenience stores and all those customer service and help lines that are open "24/7" must mean they're open
3.428571428571428571428571428 571428571
42857142857142857142857142857 1428571
42857142857142857142857142857 1428571
42857142857142857142857142857 1428571
42857142857142857142857142857 1428571
42857142857142857142857142857 1428571
42857142857142857142857142857 1428571
42857142857142857142857142857 1428571
428571...
of something. Right? Because if they meant they were open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, they'd just come out and say it, wouldn't they?
Well, wouldn't they?
I'd make a joke here about pi and pie, but everybody knows by now that pi isn't pie and has told all the possible jokes about mixing them up that there can be:
"Pi r square?"
"No you dummy! Everybody knows pie r round. Cake r square."
...And so on.
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