Saturday, August 15, 2015

Batman Equation - Numberphile




It's fun that it's not just an approximation, it's a perfect Batman logo. If you put in on an issue of Batman, nobody would remark on it.

On Quora somebody asked who wrote it, and this answer came:

I wrote it many, many years ago. I was teaching at a few art schools throughout the greater Sacramento area, and I used it to engage my students in the topic of graphing.  One of my coolest students (Mr. Wilkinson aka i_luv_ur_mom) posted it to Reddit back in 2011 and it went viral.  These days, I'm a full time professor over at American River College, doing every thing I can to make math as enjoyable as possible.
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3 comments:

  1. Ah, one of those teachers. Dead Poets Society has a lot to answer for.

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  2. For those geeks among us: Here is a term by term deconstruction and explanation of how the equation was constructed. www.pacifict.com/Examples/Batman/

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  3. Now that my friend, is truly a bit of trivia...

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