Futility Closet

35 – 3² – 5² = 75 – 7² – 5²

A neutron walks into a bar and orders a beer.

“How much do I owe you?” he says.

“For you,” says the bartender, “no charge.”

The integral z-squared dz
From one to the cube root of three
Times the cosine
Of three pi over nine
Equals log of the cube root of e.

144648 = 861 × 168 = 492 × 294

185472 = 672 × 276 = 384 × 483

9949716 = 2583 × 3852 = 1476 × 6741

16746912 = 2556 × 6552 = 4473 × 3744

Every even number is the sum of two primes.

Is that true? No one knows. Originally proposed in 1742, it’s been tested as far as 10¹⁸, but the jury’s still out.

English biologist Richard Owen designed a collection of life-size concrete dinosaurs for London’s Crystal Palace.

On New Year’s Eve 1853, he hosted a dinner for 21 inside the iguanodon.

James Bond never really explains why he likes his martinis “shaken, not stirred,” so in 1999 the University of Western Ontario’s biochemistry department decided to find out.

They discovered that a shaken gin martini has stronger antioxidant properties than a stirred one — which would help Bond avoid cardiovascular disease, stroke, and cataracts.

In their writeup for the British Medical Journal, they conclude, “007′s profound state of health may be due, at least in part, to compliant bartenders.”

See also Silly Old Bear.

In the number 6210001000:

• The digit 0 occurs 6 times
• The digit 1 occurs 2 times
• The digit 2 occurs 1 time
• The digit 3 occurs 0 times
• The digit 4 occurs 0 times
• The digit 5 occurs 0 times
• The digit 6 occurs 1 time
• The digit 7 occurs 0 times
• The digit 8 occurs 0 times
• The digit 9 occurs 0 times

See also The Quick Brown Fox …

115132219018763992565095597973971522401 = 1³⁹ + 1³⁹ + 5³⁹ + 1³⁹ + 3³⁹ + 2³⁹ + 2³⁹ + 1³⁹ + 9³⁹ + 0³⁹ + 1³⁹ + 8³⁹ + 7³⁹ + 6³⁹ + 3³⁹ + 9³⁹ + 9³⁹ + 2³⁹ + 5³⁹ + 6³⁹ + 5³⁹ + 0³⁹ + 9³⁹ + 5³⁹ + 5³⁹ + 9³⁹ + 7³⁹ + 9³⁹ + 7³⁹ + 3³⁹ + 9³⁹ + 7³⁹ + 1³⁹ + 5³⁹ + 2³⁹ + 2³⁹ + 4³⁹ + 0³⁹ + 1³⁹

The international symbol for recycling depicts a Möbius strip.