4 month ago
nelson : Faster prime sieving - Some clever modular math to more efficiently generate large primes
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9 month ago
Cameron Moll : OSF, LF, and TF explained - Oldstyle figures (OSF), lining figures (LF), and tabular and proportional widths: When to use which. A really straight-forward primer for typesetting numerals properly.
Richard Rutter : Old style, lining and tabular figures explained - Figures being numerals.
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17 month ago
43folders : Macworld: First Look: First Look: Numbers - "The way Numbers works goes against nearly 20 years of training, so I really have to try not to 'think Excel' when using the program." [via: Lifehacker]
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18 month ago
deusx : Strange but True: Infinity Comes in Different Sizes: Scientific American - "If you were counting on infinity being absolute, your number's up"
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30 month ago
kellan : Google: "one trillion words from public Web pages." - note to self, revisit Hadoop #
Paul Hammond : Official Google Research Blog: All Our N-gram are Belong to You - We processed 1,011,582,453,213 words of running text and are publishing the counts for all 1,146,580,664 five-word sequences that appear at least 40 times
joshua : Official Google Research Blog: All Our N-gram are Belong to You - i wish this wasn't $150
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plasticbag : An interesting vague poll on the meaning of 'several' plus a million comments about it - Personal conclusions - 'couple' means two, 'few' means three and maybe four, several is in excess of four but under ten, averaging out to mean a median of something like seven things...
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31 month ago
jkottke : Stephen Hawking and Thomas Hertog are publishing a paper that argues that the universe "began in just about every way imaginable" simultaneously and then most of the possibilites withered away with the rest blending to make the current universe - Stephen Hawking and Thomas Hertog are publishing a paper that argues that the universe "began in just about every way imaginable" simultaneously and then most of the possibilites withered away with the rest blending together to make the current universe.
plasticbag : Stephen Hawking is about to argue that we have to think of cosmology backwards - I love this - the argument is that rather than look for initial physical laws and working out how we manifested from them (deterministic universe), we instead have to view our universe as just one expression of physical laws and possibilities and push bac
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36 month ago
deusx : CBBC Newsround | Animals | Herman could be 'biggest bunny' - "The mighty bunny weighs a massive 7.7kg, and his ears are a lengthy 21cm - almost as long as most pet rabbits are tall. And he is almost 1m tall."
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38 month ago
kayodeok : Every number has its own significance - "This cool list shows the significance of EVERY number from 1-9,999 -- Such as 3025 is the sum of the first 10 cubes, or 18 is the only number that is twice the sum of its digits"
Matthew M. Boedicker : every number has its own significance
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61 month ago
Graham Leuschke : Theorem: 137 is the smallest uninteresting number - and therefore interesting!
jimray : What's Special About This Number? - Bloody brilliant [via /popular]
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