{"id":1665,"date":"2007-08-17T10:06:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T10:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/08\/17\/stupid-math-tricks\/"},"modified":"2007-08-17T10:06:28","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T10:06:28","slug":"stupid-math-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/08\/17\/stupid-math-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Math Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things Chad didn&#8217;t mention about me in his introduction is that in addition to being a physics major as an undergraduate, I also majored in mathematics. My research interests these days tend towards the exciting confluence of mathematics and high energy physics. So, in honor of that (but really completely unrelated), I give you:<\/p>\n<p>60499999499 \/ 490050000000<\/p>\n<p>If you like, consider it an easy puzzle to understand the significance of this number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things Chad didn&#8217;t mention about me in his introduction is that in addition to being a physics major as an undergraduate, I also majored in mathematics. My research interests these days tend towards the exciting confluence of mathematics and high energy physics. So, in honor of that (but really completely unrelated), I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/08\/17\/stupid-math-tricks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stupid Math Tricks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aaron","category-guest_bloggers","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}