Mathematician’s Dice
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Feeling nerdy? Backing this project on KickStarter will get you a Mathematician’s Dice for just $5 (2 for $10, 4 for $20).
Rather than the boring numbers 1 to 6, these dice have the six most important numbers in mathematics on them — i, 0, 1, φ, e and π!
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I would have put -1 on it.
author
To represent negative numbers or for another reason?
To represent the concept of negative numbers, numbers that don’t exist but allow you to express vectors efficiently. It would also mean you could write
e iPi = -1
which summarises (almost) everything you need to know.
I don’t have much use for the Golden Ratio.
author
Yeah, the Golden Ratio is a strange inclusion, maybe because the creator is an artist.
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