Has it really been a month? More selected numbers, this time from the latest two sets of Dewey Decimal subject mappings.
- The eyes have it: Peacocks in art – 704.943286258
- Vicar of Dibleyest number: Clergy on television – 791.456827
- 100,00 BC: Prehistoric peoples on television – 791.45658
- “But she hates James Blunt already”: Musical perception in infants – 155.422215
- Don’t go there: Sin City (Imaginary place) – 741.5973
- We’re turning Chinese, I really think so: Sinicization – 303.48251
- The fraud that got away was this big: Phishing – 005.8
- Beam me up, Scotty: Quantum teleportation – 530.12
- Fairly long number: Sephardim in literature – 809.933529924046
- Very long number: Quetzalcoatl in literature – 808.80382997845202113
These large numbers are, however, dwarfed by this monstrosity from the Canadian subject mapping for works about a four-and-a-half month strike at the Versatile tractor plant in Winnipeg:
Buhler Versatile Inc. Strike, Winnipeg, Man., 2000-2001 – 331.892829225209712743090511
Wow. It’s certainly the longest I’ve ever seen. And they say size isn’t everything.
I see they’ve picked this one out at Dewey Towers too.
What is the DDC number for pi?
512.73, which is the number for analytic number theory, is probably the closest mapping.
That’s just rubbish.
The closest DDC numbers to pi I can offer are 003.1, which is computer system identification, and 314.15, which is statistics about Ireland.