Facts about Five [07 Nov 2008|11:26pm] mishkin [ mood | nostalgic ] Math - 3rd prime number - Fermat prime - The 5th Fibonacci number - Basis for the Abel-Ruffini theorem - the number of Platonic solids - the pentagon - Binary: 101 - Ternary: 12 - The only prime to end in 5 - Quaternary: 11 - Pentagrams proving continued fraction expansion - Quinary: 10 - Roman Numeral: V - The golden ratio - 5-fold symmetry - Dodecahedrons Science - Pariacoto Virus: contains a dodecahedron of RNA - Almost all amphibians, reptilies, mammals that have fingers/toes have five on each extremity - Atomic number of Boron - Number of oceans in the world - Number of human senses - Lightest atomic mass for which no stable isotopes exist for any element - Appendages on a Starish (pentamerism) - Number of basic tastes - Quasicrystals (approx 5-fold symmetry) - Most destructive Hurricanes/Tornadoes (Saffir-Simpson/Fujita) - Fool's Gold Random - Perfect fifth: most consonant harmony, basis for most tuning systems - The staff in musical notation has this many horizontal lines - Vices and Virtues of Sikhism - "pleading the fifth" - "Pillars of Islam" - Books of the Torah - Leos in Astrology - Rivers of Hades - Islamic tile design - Shakespeare - Quintessence - Quincunx - Stages of Grief - The Olympic Symbol - Virtues of traditional Japanese society But what does 5 mean to me? Love 1 comment|post comment

Election? [05 Nov 2008|09:47am] mishkin [ mood | determined ] Well thank god that election is done and over with. More importantly, thank god it is over with any partisan court hearings and crap about recounts... just an actual, simple, and fair (I hope) election. I still think the whole electoral college thing is outdated, but not really sure how to fix it anyway so I shouldn't complain. Popular vote isn't a good way to do it either so I guess we should just stick with what we've got. This will certainly be an interesting next four years. Some of Obama's views and plans are a bit over the top (socialism much?) but I guess we'll have to see how many of things actually come to light. Now the fake promises can stop and the real work can be done. Everyone says he was the change we needed, and I agree for the most part. But an entirely 'democratic' government... with all of Congress predominantly democrat (and I think almost filibuster proof?) it's not a good thing. I always believed in balance of power, so whenever an entire party dominates two parts of the government, it's not a good thing. It's GOOD to have differing views and such so no one party can go and run off with just their ideas. Enough quasi-depressing talk. It's great and unprecedented to see Obama take office. Frankly I think it's awesome and I hope the man lives up to the hype and movie-star persona that has developed around him. With that, I leave you with ( this spectacular image: ) post comment

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