Why?

I also posted this question in another thread and no one replied. Maybe here someone will. What do you think this equation says?

m + (mc^2) + r^2 + 0.577215664 + X ( moles / RAM ) - s

where: gamma = 0.577215664
X = 0x43 + 0x48 + 0x52 + 0x49 + 0x53 + 0x54

because Santa's a girl? hehe originated from sinti klaas or sinter klaas and americans converted it to santa claus and we pinoys now have santa klaws....or so they say, i still say he's a she!! :O

oh and your equation reads
"Merry Xmas"...i think....don't ask me how i got it...it was a wild guess...
saw the m+E+rr and sort of picked it up from there

I thought Saint Nicholas was Santa Claus ???

It's an invalid equation.

What does the carat represent?

The caret means "raise to the power of" or "cube". So this means that "x^2" is x squared. :) This is the arithmetic convention in some programming languages.

In "texting", you exclude the caret.

Tricky eh?! :)

I thought Saint Nicholas was Santa Claus ???

That should then make him a Santo Claus? :)

In pinoy speak, Santa Kulasa or Santo Kulas?

oh and your equation reads
"Merry Xmas"...i think....don't ask me how i got it...it was a wild guess...
saw the m+E+rr and sort of picked it up from there

Almost but not there yet. :)

Anyone here who is good in math or physics? :O

I am not good in math kaya 'bout SC na lang ang sasagutin ko.
According to history:
In the 1600's, the Dutch presented Sinterklaas (meaning St. Nicholas) to the colonies. In their excitement, many English-speaking children uttered the name so quickly that Sinterklaas sounded like Santy Claus. After years of mispronunciation, the name evolved into Santa Claus.

Why?
m + (mc^2) + r^2 + 0.577215664 + X ( moles / RAM ) - s

where: gamma = 0.577215664
X = 0x43 + 0x48 + 0x52 + 0x49 + 0x53 + 0x54
m + e + rr + y + X (mass) - s

where e = mc^2 (einstein's theory)
y = 0. 577215664 = gamma
mass = Moles / RAM

If " X = 0x43 + 0x48 + 0x52 + 0x49 + 0x53 + 0x54" then X=0?

I am not good in math kaya 'bout SC na lang ang sasagutin ko.
According to history:
In the 1600's, the Dutch presented Sinterklaas (meaning St. Nicholas) to the colonies. In their excitement, many English-speaking children uttered the name so quickly that Sinterklaas sounded like Santy Claus. After years of mispronunciation, the name evolved into Santa Claus.

And the guy in the red suit (Father Christmas) with the sleigh and reindeer was invented by Coca Cola for an advertising campaign :)

Anybody with enough time will find, within any string of numbers or symbols, a pattern (even if there is none) or something "magical" or "meaningful". Or you may work the process in reverse (determine something "magical" and look for the numbers that will fit).

I suggest reading Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, which is a deligtful romp of things similar to this thread (meanings of the dimensions of the pyramids or the corner kiosk, anyone?) among other things, instead of the juvenile Chariot of the Gods. :)

And the guy in the red suit (Father Christmas) with the sleigh and reindeer was invented by Coca Cola for an advertising campaign :)
Actually Frank that is an urban legend and therefore false.

Here's the story...
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/santa.asp

Yeah, well, merry christmas anyway.

Trevor. MSc (Bombay)failed, C.D.M., N.B.G., S.M.B.and bar. :cheers:

I am not surprised at all. There are so many things we all think we know that turn out to be wrong. Then sometimes we find out that the article or whatever explaining why it is wrong is also wrong :O

Is there a Santa Claus? - a physicist view

Consider the following:

1) No known species of reindeer can fly. But there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.

2) There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.

3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical).

This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house.

Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.

This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man- made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.

4) The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight.

On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that 'flying reindeer' (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine.

We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.

5) 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each.

In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second.

Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.> In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.

(NOTE: This appeared in the SPY Magazine (January, 1990) )

All I can say is...

JESUS is the REASON for the SEASON!

Have a blessed CHRISTmas everyone!

m + e + rr + y + X (mass) - s

where e = mc^2 (einstein's theory)
y = 0. 577215664 = gamma
mass = Moles / RAM

If " X = 0x43 + 0x48 + 0x52 + 0x49 + 0x53 + 0x54" then X=0?



Excellent! Only the X is left. Hmmm... Ok, I'll tell you what X is. The clue is in the "0x". If you're a C/C++ programmer, you'll know that that symbol indicates the nums are hex. If you convert this hex nums to ASCII, you'll come up with CHRIST.

The unfortunate thing is many people have replaced CHRIST with an X, a common symbol or variable used in math or even in computer programming. Many people's equation is now X = partying, shopping, gift giving, merry making, etc. Many have forgotten that Christ was born a very poor child and died a very poor man. The Son of God came and left this world under the most humble of circumstances. Is the reason for the season lost already in this modern world?

To me, no. He's my reason for the season! :banana:

Now as to why is Santa Claus is a Santa and not a Santo, check the following links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus

Here's an excerpt:

When the Dutch still owned the land that later became New York, they brought the Saint Nicholas' eve legend with them to the Americas, but without the red mantle and other symbols. The name Santa Claus is derived from the character's Dutch name, Sinterklaas. Note that in Dutch, the feast is called 'Sinterklaas Feest' and it celebrates the birthday of Sinterklaas during Sinterklaasavond ("Sinterklaas's Evening") on December 5th or in Belgium on December 6th.

In Washington Irving's History of New York, Sinterklaas was Americanized to "Santa Claus" but lost his bishop's apparel, and was at first pictured as a thick bellied Dutch sailor with a pipe in a green winter coat. Irving's book was a lampoon of the Dutch culture of new York, and much of this portrait is his joking invention. Santa Claus appeared in various colored costumes as he gradually became amalgamated with the figure of Father Christmas, but red soon became popular after he appeared wearing such on an 1885 Christmas card. His horse was converted to reindeer and a sleigh, the black peters (which were in fact Moorish slaves) were converted to elves, and, in an attempt to move the origin of the festivities away from their pagan background to a more Christian one, the date was moved back a few weeks to the celebrated day of the birth of Jesus: Christmas.

Here's one more:

http://lnstar.com/mall/main-areas/santafaq.htm

Enjoy! Merry Christmas to all :banana: