Three key facts about the new year. Enjoy!
2024 = 8 x 11 x 23.
2024 = 2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³
2024 is a tetrahedron (pile of 2,024 oranges).

@rudytheelder strictly speaking, they don't HAVE to be oranges.

Cannonballs would do equally well.

@rudytheelder the one with the cubed numbers had me actually gasping - that is amazingly cool.
@elizabethveldon @rudytheelder I had to verify it myself, super cool. But by that paradigm I’m super excited for 2025!
@done @rudytheelder yes, i checked immediatly as well
@rudytheelder and a happy, mathematical new year to you, sir!
@rudytheelder possible alt-text: an oblique view of a tetrahedral stack of 2024 spheres.
@lain_7 @rudytheelder this just came to my mind: could we make a bot that made suggestions for image posts with no alt text? with AI?

@coffeeaddict @rudytheelder

I've thought about that like every time I hesitate to boost something lacking an alt text. But:

- I bet the bot wouldn't be able to make head not tail out of an image like the stack of spheres,and would certainly miss the significance of there (probably, I didn't confirm) 2024 spheres in the stack

- Half the images I see on Mastodon are visual puns otherwise meaning-doubled

So it would be challenging. Plus the models would be expensive to run on a Mastodon server.

@rudytheelder
Coming next:
2025 = 0³+1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³
And continuing down:
2024 =
(-1)³+0³+1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+
6³+7³+8³+9³
#funfacts
@rudytheelder but…

• the year zero was at some arbitrary meaningless time
• years had already been happily counting before that
• elsewhere in the world it isn’t necessarily 2024 at all
#TOTP
@rudytheelder Follow up question: is triangle the strongest shape?

(the only correct answer, in this instance*, is "yes")

* "this instance" defined as "...any interaction occurring with the individual 'Michael Scott Hand'..."
#usermanual #fiction #writing
@rudytheelder how does that factor into things?
@PizzaDemon @rudytheelder
Most likely the end of times according to the {fill in the blank} calendar.
@rudytheelder i can't believe i get to live at such a beautiful time
@rudytheelder @timbray i’m more enamored by the idea that 2025 will be the only square year that any one we likely currently know alive will have seen, or will see, in their life
@quaeler oh that's cool! 2025 is 45²

@rudytheelder

2025 is a perfect cube, such nice number years!

@futurebird @rudytheelder so is 2026 a circle....?
@futurebird @rudytheelder @dilmandila I hate to think about what we are circling back to.

@rudytheelder Hey! It's true!

I didn't notice it before, but 2024 is the sum of first 22 triangular numbers, which makes it the 22th tetrahedral number!

@rudytheelder but.... none of those are facts about the year, just the number! 😳