Happy Dodecahedron Day

[O_P_T]

12/12/12



Which also happens to be my last day of work this year. "Theoretically" at least.



Company has a use it or loose it policy, so I'm going to "use it".

[Bob R]

Dodecahedron

Nice word. I had to google it. +1

I thought today was the end of the world, but I was corrected.

[Steve-o]

According to this, it's 12/5 every year.

http://staff.imsa.edu/~vmatsko/dodecaday.html

[BostonTim]

Originally Posted by Steve-o

According to this, it's 12/5 every year.

http://staff.imsa.edu/~vmatsko/dodecaday.html

I thought so. In fact, Last Wed. Mrs. S's Geometry Classes were folding those little 12 pentagon templates into Dodec Xmas ornaments for her in-class ChristmasGeom-e-Tree.

Cheers

[TipRoast]

It is indeed 12/12/12 if you're doing modulo-100 arithmetic.

But if you're doing things in mod-8, it's 4/4/4.

[BostonTim]

Originally Posted by TipRoast

It is indeed 12/12/12 if you're doing modulo-100 arithmetic.

But if you're doing things in mod-8, it's 4/4/4.

Cheers, BostonTim

[O_P_T]

Originally Posted by TipRoast

It is indeed 12/12/12 if you're doing modulo-100 arithmetic.

But if you're doing things in mod-8, it's 4/4/4.

Which reminds me, for no obvious reason, about the "question" in the Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy.

The Answer is 42.

The question is "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"

If you use base 13, the answer is 42.