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Secrets about numbers

• giu 17y ago
  Nice one. I entered 3.14, but the results page didn't mention anything about PI. Looks like it just rounds the entered number. Pity! :) But it's still cool!
  • dmn001 17y ago
    Interesting page, the rest of the site is good reading too. I tend to use Wolfram Alpha quite a lot for this: e.g. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=3.14 http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=3.14
    • giu 17y ago
      Definitely, me too. I just thought it would be a good first test to just enter the first digits of PI. :)
      • jbee 17y ago
        I thought the obvious first number to try was 69..
  • ch 17y ago
    I tried that one too (3.141 actually); then I tried 'pi', but it told me to check Google.
  • zoba 17y ago
    It also wont say anything about sqrt(-1) :(
    • wlievens 17y ago
      sqrt(-1) doesn't exist and i isn't a number, is it?
• micampe 17y ago
  I'm sure 0 is a fine number, but I only like to talk about positive things.
• zeynel1 17y ago
  Very nice page. More on her page http://www.tanyakhovanova.com/ http://www.tanyakhovanova.com/
  • MaysonL 17y ago
    And her son got his MIT CS PHD last year - with Sussman as his advisor. PDF of the thesis: http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/49525/MIT-CSAIL-TR-2009-053.pdf?sequence=1 http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/49525/MIT-CSAI...
• grogers 17y ago
  I wonder what percentage of queries is 42?
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• Groxx 17y ago
  Awww, "I'm sure 1234567890 is a fine number, but I do not yet know any interesting gossip about numbers bigger than 9999." And I agree with zoba, "i" would've been a good one to include. Given that the number properties are based off things that can be calculated from the number, why is there such a small limit? I mean, preventing 500-digit numbers makes sense for sheer computational difficulty, but only 4 digits?