Some facts are completely unimportant. Here's one.
Geraldine McGee Rosenthal, the real life inspiration for Sharon Stone's character in Casino, lived exactly the same number of days as John F. Kennedy. 16,978 days each from birth to death.
Post your own worthless true facts!
Biorhythm theory is a pseudoscience based on the idea that people have physical, emotional, and intellectual cycles of 23, 28, and 33 days respectively. For example, a person will tend to be at his or her peak physically every 23 days.
It also predicts that couples will be more or less compatible depending on how much their various cycles are in sync. For example, two people born 28 days apart, or 56 days apart, or 280 days apart will tend to hit their emotional peaks at the same times as well as their emotional lows, and so will feel happy together as well as gloomy together and will get along well on that basis.
Personally I put this idea right up there with reading tea leaves, astrology, four leaf clovers, and a lot of other such things. Still, it does make some interesting predictions. Here are some ideal matches with their dates of birth given, and their overall compatibility scores (average of the physical, emotional, and intellectual compatibility scores).
Rihanna (20 Feb 1988) and Ed Gein (27 Aug 1906) -- 96.78%
Ashley Graham (30 Oct 1987) and Ted Bundy (24 Nov 1946) -- 99.01%
Ava Gardner (24 Dec 1922) and Jeffrey Dahmer (21 May 1960) -- 99.33%
Gal Gadot (30 Apr 1985) and Lee Harvey Oswald (18 Oct 1939) -- 98.40%
Kristy McNichol (11 Sep 1962) and Charles Manson (12 Nov 1934) -- 99.33%
Tiffany Haddish (3 Dec 1979) and Adolf Hitler (20 Apr 1889) -- 98.70%
Dina Lohan (15 Sep 1962) and Saddam Hussein (28 Apr 1937) -- 96.29%
Ronda Rousey (1 Feb 1987) and Idi Amin (17 May 1925) -- 99.85%
Sofia Coppola (14 May 1971) and Kim Jong-Un (8 Jan 1984) -- 98.25%
Hillary Clinton (26 Oct 1947) and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (24 Sep 1902) -- 96.55%
I have not heard a thing about biorhythms since the 70's.
shareSorry for the dilatory response; a very busy couple of days.
I haven't either except from one person I'll mention in a moment. I wonder if that's because they're no longer a popular thing, or if it's just that they're no longer popular among the people I hang out with. I also haven't heard much about Boy Scout merit badges in a long time, but they're still around, it's just that my friends and I have no reason to concern ourselves with them. I never took biorhythms seriously but when I was a kid some of my classmates did.
On the other hand, there are sane adults out there who believe in things like past lives, the lost city of Atlantis, the magical power of crystals, astrology, et cetera. It wouldn't surprise me if biorhythms are popular among such people. I don't hang out with that crowd so I wouldn't know.
The exception I mentioned is a friend who's trying to develop an Apple app for biorhythms. His idea is that the app will give ideal matches for an entered birthday, but he plans to load up his database with lots of people like Bundy, Oswald, and Dahmer for comic effect. I helped him with the math and. along with his other friends, have been collecting famous people's birthdays as we come across them and forwarding them to him. He's built up quite a database, which is how I was able to get the matches I listed above. As for me, it turns out I'm an excellent match with Raquel Welch and with Julie Newmar. It also turns out I'm an excellent match with Squeaky Fromme and with Casey Anthony.
All hogwash. Everyone knows the one true thing is the Magic 8-Ball
google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=magic+eight+ball
Oh, when I comment online I never know if there is a response coming, or when, but the most reliable assumption is that is it going to the insulting, irrelevant or stupid.
Thankfully your comment was intelligent ... very rare and nice to see.
I know about Biorhythms from the 70's I think it was and I got a biorhythm plotting kit for my birthday. Which I used once. I never bought into that any more than I could believe in Astrology. It would be interesting to know how many and what kind of people follow these kinds of things - in pursuit of understanding just how stupid people are.
However, I think the system, whatever it is, however it works, creates stupid people, and people who want to hoard knowledge and keep and manage secrets - the basis of military power, intelligence.
The problem is that once someone, or some organization knows just how stupid people are, they develop a superiority attitude and think of ways to manipulate them ... why a certain politician admits to loving stupid people.
With the Internet to automate interactions with people, massive media manipulation can take place, which the Russians, if it is the Russians, have figured out how to manipulate. It can be countered, i.e. people can be immunized from manipulation, but understanding that it is there and where to be careful about data they accept.
People should leave biorhythms alone ... your friend's app seems like just another waste of time and money. If that grows the economy, I am not sure of the value of a growing economy? ;-)
"Oh, when I comment online I never know if there is a response coming, or when, but the most reliable assumption is that is it going to the insulting, irrelevant or stupid."
That's definitely something we can assume every time you post something...
Since this is a movie site:
During Shashank Redemption they were stopped from doing the scene where Brooks feeds maggot to the crow because it was decided that it would be cruel to the maggot. The director found a dead maggot and they were able to complete the scene. Years later he admitted that he actually killed the maggot himself.
> Years later he admitted that he actually killed the maggot himself.
And I'll bet he's got death threats from PETA because of it.
Pure heroin is totally non-toxic
shareThe math concept "pi" is 22/7.
That's not stupid or useless, but scouts honor I only just learned this in the last couple years. And I went to decent schools and took a 5-unit calculus class many many moons ago.
Back in my school days calculators generally had only the four arithmetic functions and a square root key. I ended up memorizing pi, e, log(2), log(10), and a few other things to eight places, not from deliberate effort but just looking them up so many times. I couldn't recall a single one now.
Here's a trick that was useful then but is useless now. If you need a base ten logarithm, don't want to take the trouble to look it up from a printed table, and can be content with an approximation, do this. Enter the number into your calculator. Hit the square root key eleven times. Subtract one from that result. Then multiply that remainder by 889. That would usually get the answer to within one percent.
Here's one from way back. I only found out about this a few years ago. It's how great-grandpa did multiplication.
Consider these two equations:
(a+b)^2 = a^2 + 2ab + b^2
(a-b)^2 = a^2 - 2ab + b^2
Subtracting them gives:
(a+b)^2 - (a-b)^2 = 4ab
Then, dividing by four gives:
ab = ((a+b)^2)/4 - ((a-b)^2)/4
In the old days, tables of "quarter squares," values of (x^2)/4, were published for math use, to take advantage of this. Here's an 1888 book with quarter squares for all numbers from 1 to 200,000.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Table_of_Quarter_squares_of_All_Whole_Nu/7eERAQAAMAAJ
To multiply two numbers, you'd add them and look up the quarter square for that number. Then you'd subtract them and look up the quarter square for that number. Then you'd subtract those two quarter squares. For example, to multiply 10 by 6:
1) Look up the quarter square for 16, i.e., (16^2)/4 = 64.
2) Look up the quarter square for 4, i.e., (4^2)/4 = 4.
3) 10 * 6 = 64 - 4 = 60.
Now, for small numbers that's just an interesting trick. But I tried multiplying some five digit numbers using those tables, and it is a lot easier doing it this way than doing a straightforward multiplication by hand.
> I went to decent schools and took a 5-unit calculus class many many moons ago.
My college only offered three semesters of calculus, IIRC. What did the fourth and fifth units cover?
I only took one semester of calculus but it was every day Monday-Friday, with the engineering students, and I was NOT pursuing anything engineering or technical. Just wanted to prove I could do it. I wish I had all those hours back... young and dumb...
Oh, so five credit hours; I misunderstood that to be five semesters. Sorry about the long-winded reply, I thought you were into math then.
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22/7 is an approximation of pi. A poor one too. Better to just go with 3.1416. Is that too hard to remember?
You are wasting everyone's time.
When I was a high school nerd, some of my nerd friends spent about a year trying to outdo each other in memorizing digits of Pi. Some got up to 100 digits, or claimed they did. How the fuck would I know whether those hundred digits were correct?
From this we can conclude that high school kids are idiots, even the smart ones.
George Washington lived his entire life without knowing about the existence of dinosaurs.
shareRevelations 13:18, “This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.”
Carbon, the element present in all life as we know it has 6 protons, 6 neutrons, and 6 electrons.
bible sorcery!
I've heard that the 666 thing is a veiled reference to the emperor Nero, but I'm no Biblical scholar and couldn't say.
> Carbon, the element present in all life as we know it has 6 protons, 6 neutrons, and 6 electrons.
Back during my college years the joke was that 666 = Ronald Wilson Reagan; six letters in each name.