Mitt-i, the greatest local news press in the Stockholm area, is arranging Mitt-i cupen together with the icehockey, floorball and basketball federations. During Saturday March 20 we could follow very exiting games live on Qrodo, directly from Björkängshallen.
80% of the Canadians were watching the ice hockey final game between Canada and the USA. The green line is from a normal day. The blue line is obviously correlated to the happening of the ice hockey game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
The Indiana Pi Bill is the popular name for bill #246 of the 1897 sitting of the Indiana General Assembly, one of the most famous attempts to establish scientific truth by legislative fiat. Despite that name, the main result claimed by the bill is a method to square the circle, rather than to establish a certain value for π, although the bill does contain text that appears to dictate various incorrect values of π, such as 3.2.
The bill never became law, due to the intervention of a mathematics professor who happened to be present in the legislature.
The impossibility of squaring the circle using only compass and straightedge, suspected since ancient times, was rigorously proven in 1882 by Ferdinand von Lindemann. Better approximations of π than those inferred from the bill have been known since ancient times.
Congratulations to the Italian team with Enrico Garozzo, Alfredo Rota, Paolo Pizzo and Matthew Trager.
World cup competition for national teams at Challenge Bernadotte in Stockholm ended on Sunday afternoon. Italy beat Poland in a very dramatic final which had to be decided in sudden death. Poland stayed on top for a long while, despite having to substitute one fencer due to injury. After 7 of the 9 matches, Poland was in the lead 33-30. Enters Paolo Pizzo, a highly accomplished and intensive fencer who evens the score to 39-39. After the 9th and final match, the score was still tied; 41-41. In overtime Alfredo Rota made the final touch and wins the competition for Italy.
Late this afternoon the audience at Eriksdalshallen and 1300 persons watching the final live on Qrodo could celebrate a worthy winner. Jung Seung Hwa defeted Jörg Fiedler (ranked 2nd in the world) with 15-12. In the semi-finals Jung won over world’s number one, Gauthier Grumier. Congratulations!
by Charlotte Levin
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