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Once I heard about a prophet that used math to foresaw with great accuracy many events of the humanity. Today I oddly realized the time between falling drops after washing cups fit the inverse square law.

What are some unexpected things accurately predicted by math?

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    I would have thought that if the drops come after closing a tap, then there is a finite amount of liquid and so a finite number of drops.2012-04-02
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    I'd say that's have to do more with natural sciences, rather than math. So you may also try asking the question at http://physics.stackexchange.com/ Though the connection of physics and math is a distinct and a rich theme for a discussion.2012-04-02
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    Was the prophet "Hari Sheldon" born 10th month of the 11,988th year of the Galactic Era?2012-04-02
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    Fun reading: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html, "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" by Eugene Wigner.2012-06-27
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    Be sure to balance the unreasonable effectiveness with the unreasonable *ineffectiveness* of math in complex systems, eg in economics: http://cje.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/6/849.abstract, in biomedicine: http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/docs/fisherian.pdf2012-12-11

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