The T-Files


Fri, 01 Aug 2003

Fun with Math

A newly opened attraction in Giessen is the Mathematikum, a museum of mathematical games. It has immediately become a favorite for school classes (or maybe just their math teachers) and as a drop-out math student I can recommend everyone to visit it. The Mathematikum has mirrors, scales, rulers, dices, slides, soap, and everything else one needs to have fun with math. You can also find out where your birth date shows up within the digits of π, and my 2307 is right at the 64th position. A casual examination seems to suggest that this is the best position possible:

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307
81640628620899862803482534211706798214808651328230664709384460955058
223172535940812848111...