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How to square the circle for real. Spaghetti sort: An algorithm for sorting rods of spaghetti. Squircle: Not quite a square, not quite a circle, definitely not a Pokémon either. Taxicab number: Never tell a Numberphile that a number is uninteresting. Tetraphobia: Sometimes found in conjunction with triskaidekaphobia (see below) in East Asian ...
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
A property of weird numbers is that if n is weird, and p is a prime greater than the sum of divisors σ(n), then pn is also weird. [4] This leads to the definition of primitive weird numbers: weird numbers that are not a multiple of other weird numbers (sequence A002975 in the OEIS). Among the 1765 weird numbers less than one million, there are ...
Simon Elmore won the Guinness World Record for most straws in the mouth on August 6, 2009. He held 400 straws between his jaws for 10 seconds. He held 400 straws between his jaws for 10 seconds. 2.
A list of articles about numbers (not about numerals). Topics include powers of ten, notable integers, prime and cardinal numbers, and the myriad system.
In 2004, family members of Kasner, who had inherited the right to his book, were considering suing Google for their use of the term "googol"; [11] however, no suit was ever filed. [ 12 ] Since October 2009, Google has been assigning domain names to its servers under the domain "1e100.net", the scientific notation for 1 googol, in order to ...
A visualization of the surreal number tree. In mathematics, the surreal number system is a totally ordered proper class containing not only the real numbers but also infinite and infinitesimal numbers, respectively larger or smaller in absolute value than any positive real number.
An island city-state famous for cleanliness, Singapore has many laws aimed at keeping the nation tidy. The country seems to have a particular obsession with chewing gum, banning its importation ...