Ramblings on a trivial math pattern

A week or so after publishing the previous article I observed an unexpected traffic pattern on my blog. I thought it was some new AI crawler and didn’t give it much thought. Until a few hours later when I actually looked from the logs and realized that the article somehow made its way toHacker News.

After looking through the comments there, I realized that some are really useful. Asdiscussed in the comments article, I extracted four of those comments and updated the(\pi^2 \approx 10) article. One of these four comments is the subject of today’s article.

987654321 / 123456789 = 8 (to the 7th decimal place)

No, I’m not going to say that it is 8. Instead, this comment reminded me of a different math meme that was going on the internet a few years ago:

A simple math pattern that has been used in various memes

Here, I will discuss the math pattern, excluding the Galileo quote that usually accompanies it.Read more...