Très cool.  https://xkcd.com/1047/ says that 75^4 is approximately the
number of seconds in a year.

   y=: */ 365.2425 24 60 60
   y
3.1557e7
   75^4
3.16406e7
   o. 1e7
3.14159e7

   y %~ 75^4
1.00265
   y %~ o. 1e7
0.995531

So it's not quite as good an estimate, but to say "there are approximately
π times 1e7 seconds in a year", how cool is that?




On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> This looks like fun:
>
> http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/04/30/recognizing-numbers/
>
> And perhaps interesting to implement something similar in J (perhaps
> based on an enumeration of J's constant language).
>
> --
> Raul
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