The exponential function is a miracle

Re:The exponential function is a miracle by magicseth on Friday September 13, 2019 @01:16AM (#20959382)

17 is the favorite number of David Kelly, a mathematician and professor of Hampshire College. He loves it for a very large number of reasons. He was instrumental in creating a summer camp at Hampshire which has trained many young brilliant mathematical minds. (Including Vi Hart). Thus it has spread.

http://www.vinc17.net/yp17/index.en.html

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Re:The exponential function is a miracle by lucas_membrane on Friday September 13, 2019 @05:27AM (#20960509)

Following the links from that link, I find wikipedia for 17 says, "Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) showed that two regular "heptadecagons" (17-sided polygons) could be constructed with ruler and compasses."

(I learned it as straightedge and compass.) Wikipedia did not mention the story that Gauss has a regular heptadecagon inscribed on his tombstone.

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Re:The exponential function is a miracle by oarabbus_ on Friday September 13, 2019 @02:46AM (#20959789)

You can find such "collections" for numbers like 7, 8, or 13, even ignoring the integers 0-4, and 42 is obviously a reference to Hitchhikers guide, a work of fiction. Am I missing something?

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Re:The exponential function is a miracle by lonelappde on Friday September 13, 2019 @07:14PM (#20967642)

Surely he loves it for 17 reasons.

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