n! - the other side of numbers

I have always wondered why Maths teachers are portrayed and considered as one of the craziest and weirdest sect of homo sapiens.

Reasons may be

1- They sure are the most unsocial and nerdy people you can ever find.

2- Try telling them that you like history and english, only if you are brave enough to face their sarcastic but terrible smile.

3- They tell the biggest lie this world has ever faced, repeatedly as their gospel
"MATHS IS JUST A GAME WITH NUMBERS..MATH IS FUN!!!!" -come on when will these crazy people realize that games are meant to entertain(haven't you heard of the x-boxes and PS3s)

But I realize now that even for teasing maths, you need numbers to list out your reasons. To admit the fact, yes I love numbers even if they betray me sometimes(not just because they form 66% of the CAT syllabus!!) but for the sheer joy you get when you crack a tough problem ahead of others.

Numbers- most people consider it to be similar to a maths teacher-a soulless, heartless reasoning tool, a boring intellectual crap that only the iit wannabes can make love to.

But being this crazy self proclaimed maverick that I consider myself to be, I would like to shed some light on the other facets of maths and numbers.

First of all Maths is not 100 percent a product of reason. To all those mathematicians who ridicule spirituality and belief in the super natural, don't you use the imaginary number "i" to solve complex equations that could have never been solved without imagination. So what is wrong when the troubled human race believes and uses a god (whose existence cannot be proved)to solve their real life problems.
So doesn't this shatter the preconceived intellectual superiority that maths enjoys over other imaginary yet creative fields.

Yet certain numbers have this power that matters way beyond their decimal value.
9/11 has by all means dethroned the position that 22/7 had held as the most used fraction. But 9/11 beware - Isn't Osama preparing something bigger?!!
786 is still by far the most believed and respected numbers but don't forget 2012 still gives goose bumps to a few.

I don't know what crime 666,377 and 13 committed.May be the latter's number table was difficult to memorize for the godmen.

But my personal and life long favorite number would be "THREE LAKH SIXTY TWO THOUSAND, FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY SIX".. decimalize it and add hyphen after every two digits..(sorry readers couldn't be straightforward coz I believe my brother would read this and complain to mom!!!!!)

Catch you in the next blog If I am alive...))