The Only Constant is Constants
What were they cooking?
Coastlines
100

3.14

What is pi?

100

The most prominent award in the field of mathematics, this prize is in its 90th year of being granted.

What is the Fields Medal?

100

The coastline between Revere Beach and South Station is 6 miles when measured in six-mile segments. How long is it when measured in one-mile segments?

7.75 miles

200

6.02 E 23

What is Avogadro's Number?

200

The first European use of this concept in calculation occurred around the 3rd Century AD, centuries after its first uses in India and Mesoamerica.

What is zero?

200

The coastline between Revere Beach and South Station is 6 miles when measured in six-mile segments. How long is it when measured in one-mile segments?

9.02 miles

300

2.718

What is e?

300

In ancient Greece, Hippasus was killed (perhaps drowned) by his fellow pythagoreans for doing this.

What is suggesting that some numbers might be irrational?

300

The coastline between Revere Beach and South Station is 6 miles when measured in 6-mile segments. How long is it when measured in half-mile segments?

10.3 mi

400

6.283

What is tau?

400

In the mid-1800s, Ada Lovelace did this for the first time using a newly created calculator.

What is program a computer?

400

The coastline between Revere Beach and South Station is 6 miles long when measured in 6-mile segments. How long is it in quarter-mile segments?

14.2 miles

500

1.618

What is phi (the golden ratio)?
500
Eratosthenes took measurements in two wells along the Nile, 5,000 stadia apart, on the equinox in order to do this.

What is measure the circumference of the earth?

500

The coastline between Delaware City, DE and White Sands Beach, MD is 23 miles when measured in 23-mile segments. How long is it when measured in 10-mile segments?

326.3 miles

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