I am 30

It’s my birthday! I’m 30 years old. How did that happen? Time to abandon all ambitions of becoming a rock star, I suppose. It would seem that climbing Everest isn’t technically out of the question yet, though. And apparently I’m still a young adult, which is reassuring.

Upon investigation it turns out that 30 is actually a more interesting number than I thought, being the third primorial, a square pyramidal, “the largest number with the property that all smaller numbers relatively prime to it are prime“, the first sphenic number (I’d never even heard of that one), and the first Guiga number (I’m still too hungover from celebrating last night to even start to think about that sort of thing).

Also, no-one I know will get this but I’m posting it anyway because it’s ace: fantastic birthday drawing of Avatar characters as Futurama characters by my brilliant wife (the Deviant Art links might not work first time, that site still runs like it’s hosted on Commodore 64s full of mashed potato).

4 comments 2007-12-09 12:11 Categories: Animation, Geek Stuff, Personal, Science & Maths