“Leibniz’s recipe for determining logarithms in this way is delightfully simple and can easily be carried out in practice using, for example, a cheap necklace pinned to a cardboard box with sewing needles.” So wrote Viktor Blåsjö, in the essay “How to Find the Logarithm of Any Number Using Nothing But a Piece of String,” […]
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From smaller than small to bigger than big
There are many ways to look at the span of sizes of things in the universe. Here are three. The cryptically named xurb1a made this video called “The Universe in 4 minutes“: Some years ago, Charles and Ray Eames made this video called “Powers of Ten“: Between way back then and now, Eric Schulman wrote […]