The law of small numbers: "We may discover that in brains, it’s numbers all the way down." https://t.co/Q8ozV1LSNk pic.twitter.com/AiWtjUlmjO
— Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf) April 15, 2017
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Mathematics. pic.twitter.com/ZBRZzTGHIP
— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) March 11, 2017
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The Pythagorean awesomeness of this is actually deeply horrific.
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Q: "Fascinating ML Neural Net Architecture! What is it?" A: "Oh, this is a 2000 year old Chinese I-Ching diagram" 😉 pic.twitter.com/A2q6BFqcMK
— samim (@samim) February 6, 2017
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@dblbd @_100101890 'Fractally concealed virtual fangs.' (Jake's term.) pic.twitter.com/jNgWGDKIsP
— ▇▇▇A▇▇▇▇▇▇I▇ (@InfiniteSynths) January 10, 2017
2017
The Derbyshire challenge:
… find anything interesting to say about the number 2017.
Yes, it’s a prime, the 306th. (The 2,017th prime, which I know you’re now wondering about, is 17,539. The last prime year was 2011; the next is 2027; the gaps there, average size 8, are what you’d expect, since log (2017) = 7.60936653795.)
Find something else.
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Shiver in awe. Each row, column, and diagonal sum to 666, the Number of the Beast. All numbers are prime. pic.twitter.com/BGeoKt9Jbq
— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) January 1, 2017
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Current mood.
(Production disaster reports imminent.)
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142,857 is the Phoenix Number, because its first 6 multiples are well-ordered numerical anagrams of itself. Source: https://t.co/jFu1nzZJpn pic.twitter.com/1WVkh0sJXv
— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) October 7, 2016
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(The Iron Law of Six is behind this, indubitably.)
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Shiver in mystery. The Pythagorean triangle with sides (693, 1924, 2045) has an area of 666666. pic.twitter.com/AsbTUbuedG
— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) September 29, 2016
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It gets better the closer you look at it.
Belphegor’s Prime
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In some parallel universe, you have actually solved this puzzle. pic.twitter.com/I1EKjRJ4px
— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) September 4, 2016
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Decimal self-reference made compactly puzzling.
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