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- shachar 13y agothis is redonculous. How is this HN material exactly? Can I post the number One?
- jxf 13y agoI'm confused about why this is on the frontpage. Slow news time for HN?
- SpacemanSpiff 13y agofrom the linked Wikipedia article: The neat coincidence that 2^10 is nearly equal to 10^3 provides the basis of a technique of estimating larger powers of 2 in decimal notation. Using 2^10a+b ≈ 2b10^3a is fairly accurate for exponents up to about 100. For exponents up to 300, 3a continues to be a good estimate of the number of digits. For example, 2^53 ≈ 8×10^15. The actual value is closer to 9×10^15.
- idexterous 13y agoOmg. I want to post number eight.
- DanBC 13y agoSee also (http://www.amazon.com/Penguin-Book-Curious-Interesting-Numbers/dp/0140261494 http://www.amazon.com/Penguin-Book-Curious-Interesting-Numbe...) (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Penguin-Book-Curious-Interesting-Numbers/dp/0140261494 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Penguin-Book-Curious-Interesting-Num...)