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Really Big Numbers (Book Review)
Really Big Numbers by Richard Schwartz will be published by the American Mathematical Society on July 3, 2014.
“Now and then we pluck numbers from the blur…numbers which have no names except the ones we might now give them…souvenirs from alien, unknowable worlds.”
-Really Big Numbers by Richard Evan Schwartz
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How Much Pi Do You Need?
NASA scientists keep the space station operational with only 15 or 16 significant digits of pi, and the fundamental constants of the universe only require 32. Yet in 2006 Akira Haraguchi of Japan recited 100,000 digits of pi from memory in 16 ½ hours, stopping for five minutes every hour to replenish his strength with onigiri rice balls. And [...]
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