LISTEN: 10-year-old Colorado boy calls police for help in math homework

What would you do if you are stuck on an item in your math homework? F0r one 10-year-old boy, he thought it best to call the police.

The Fort Collins Police Services in Colorado shared on Tuesday one unlikely conversation they had with the boy, which was posted on Facebook.

The unidentified boy called authorities for “an emergency.” “I can’t figure out what 71 divided by 3,052 (sic) is,” the caller asked the police.

“What was the… how much?” the responder asked.

The police officer did not hesitate to help the young caller with his problem, telling the boy: “I think I can help you with that.”

“I don’t know how to do that off the top of my head either at the moment,” the officer explained. But he was determined to help the boy out.

Minutes later, the officer gave the boy an answer with the help of a calculator—42.98 or 43.

Their phone conversation ended with the officer asking, “Is that all you needed?” with the boy affirming and saying his thank you.

While the boy was happy he got his answer, the conversation proved that police are ready when you need their help.  /ra

source: lifestyle.inquirer.net

Find your birthday in Pi’s first 200 million digits

March 14 is celebrated by mathematics enthusiasts around the world as Pi Day. In fact, in 2009, the US Congress voted to pass a resolution designating the date as “Pi Day” due to its resemblance to the first three digits of the recurring constant (3.14).

Pi, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, is an irrational number that extends to trillions of digits beyond the decimal point. Clearly, there is more to Pi than 3.14.

But did you know that you can search your birthday and other significant dates or number combinations in your life hidden in Pi’s trillion of digits?

What are the chances of finding your PIN or anniversary date within the Pi? There is a big chance, thanks to the Pi-Search Page at http://www.angio.net/pi/.

The Pi-Search Page, first put up in 1996, allows you to input any string of digits while the engine searches as you type, with extremely fast results. The page says it takes less than 1/50th of a second to process most requests.

You have a 100 percent chance of finding number combinations of one to five digits in the first 200 million digits of Pi, and nearly 100 percent chance for six to seven digits. Eight-combinations, birthdays included, have a 63 percent chance of being found in the string of numbers.

Here, we tried searching for (and successfully found) important dates in Philippine history, holidays, and other dates. YG/CBB

source: technology.inquirer.net