/sci/ - Science & Math

I'll just leave this here....

These days, getting a Ph.D. is probably the last thing you want to do if you are out to revolutionize the world. If, however, what you propose is an idea, rather than a technology, it can still be a valuable asset to have. Dr. Eugene McCarthy is a Ph.D. geneticist who has made a career out of studying hybridization in animals. He now curates a biological information website called Macroevolution.net where he has amassed an impressive body of evidence suggesting that human origins can be best explained by hybridization between pigs and chimpanzees. Extraordinary theories require extraordinary evidence and McCarthy does not disappoint. Rather than relying on genetic sequence comparisons, he instead offers extensive anatomical comparisons, each of which may be individually assailable, but startling when taken together. Why weren't these conclusions arrived at much sooner? McCarthy suggests it is because of an over-dependence on genetic data among biologists. He ar! gues that humans are probably the result of multiple generations of backcrossing to chimpanzees, which in nucleotide sequence data comparisons would effectively mask any contribution from pig.

Okay, this spooked me out last night and I was wondering if it means something. I was sitting with my Casio ML-831 musical calculator (no joke) and tapped in

1 / 3 / 3 / 10 / 9

The product was

0.0012345

A chill went down my spine from my intuition that the product was more meaningful with more than 8 character display so I put it in calc:

0.0 012345679 012345679 012345679 0123 (repeats)

What does it mean that the answer is a continuous series following the arithmetic progression of base-10 with the exception of '8'?

Keep in mind I am a biologist by training and therefore cannot really interpret the significance of this.