Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Even Birds Know the Sequence

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Wait...There's Math in Baseball?

Baseball is a game of numbers.  The stats in baseball are very telling about how a game should go.  Everywhere you look in baseball, math can be used to determine stats, probability, percentages, and many more.  You can use a math formula to determine anything in the game, from a pitcher's Earned Run Average (ERA) - "Innings pitched/ (earned runs/9) and
Slugging percentage "Singles + (doubles x 2) + (triples x 3) + (HR x 4) / At Bats

Check out this link for more baseball math!
http://academics.smcvt.edu/twhiteford/Math/Alexa%20Long.pdf

Some People Really Love Math

I found this pretty funny website. It highlights people who love math so much that they got math symbols and equations tattooed on themselves. I'm not a huge fan of tattoos myself, but I can appreciate the art and the meaning behind some of them. For the ones I didn't understand, a little Google and wikipedia info got me caught up. Enjoy the link!

http://mentalfloss.com/article/32288/11-great-geeky-math-tattoos