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The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers Paperback - 1987
by Wells, David
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- Title The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers
- Author Wells, David
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 228
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, London
- Date 1987-04-07
- Bookseller's Inventory # FORT287223
- ISBN 9780140080292 / 0140080295
- Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.09 x 0.57 in (19.56 x 12.93 x 1.45 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Number theory
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 87130869
- Dewey Decimal Code 512.7
Summary
Why was the number of Hardy's taxi significant? Why does Graham's number need its own notation? How many grains of sand would fill the universe? What is the connection between the Golden Ratio and sunflowers? Why is 999 more than a distress call? All these questions and a host more are answered in this fascinating book, which has now been newly revised, with nearly 200 extra entries and some 250 additions to the original entries. From minus one and its square root, via cyclic, weird, amicable, perfect, untouchable and lucky numbers, aliquot sequences, the Cattle problem, Pascal's triangle and the Syracuse algorithm, music, magic and maps, pancakes, polyhedra and palindromes, to numbers so large that they boggle the imagination, all you ever wanted to know about numbers is here. There is even a comprehensive index for those annoying occasions when you remember the name but can't recall the number.