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- Feynman, Wilkes and more
None of these things are going to get a full entry, so I will put them here for posterity. The Feynman point is the first instance of six consecutive 9s in π Feinman said he wanted to be able to recite the 700-odd digits of π up to that sequence, and then say “nine nine [...]
- Best use of the term wiffle ball in a scientific context
The award goes to: the United States Navy, for their Fusion Tender. The technology refers to Inertial Electrostatic Confinement, a technique which Robert Bussard* used in experiments with the original wiffle ball. Bussard died in 2007, but you can see that his work continues, in part in The Emc2 Fusion Development Corporation. I presume that [...]
