3 month ago
nelson : Faster prime sieving - Some clever modular math to more efficiently generate large primes
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8 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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16 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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17 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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28 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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37 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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59 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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