Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Large Numbers



In advance of Pi Day, March 14, New Scientist recently published an article describing some very large numbers: These 7 mathematical facts will blow your mind.  The article includes some familiar numbers, such as Tree(3) and the Dedekind Numbers, and some additional curiosities including Penrose Tiles, mazes, and octonions (the 8-dimension cousin of quaternions. 

No comments:

Post a Comment

16670, A Saintly Number

  (Image: By Unknown author - http://santuarioeucaristico.blogspot.hu/2010/08/sao-maximiliano-kolbe-14-de-agosto.html, Public Domain, https:...

Popular in last 30 days