David Justice wrote a little essay about vulgar numbers, or at least about things related to vulgar numbers: we took to abstraction like — like a duck to water, like a kitteh to cheezeburger, like Donald Trump to a pile of manure. It was to some extent an end in itself… No sooner did we […]
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Lots more numbers, deemed “crazy sequential”
Inder J. Taneja, who several months ago wanted to show you some simple numbers, now wants you to see some numbers, and so he presents them to you in this paper: “Crazy Sequential Representation: Numbers from 1 to 11111 in terms of Increasing and Decreasing Orders of 1 to 9,” Inder J. Taneja, arXiv:1302.1479, June […]
Lots of numbers, plain and almost simple
Inder J. Taneja wants you to see some numbers, and so he presents them to you in this paper: “Natural Numbers from 44 to 1000 in terms of Increasing and Decreasing Orders of 1 to 9,” Inder J. Taneja, arXiv:1302.1479, February 6, 2013. The author [pictured here] was at one time a professor at the […]
How to deal with large and small numbers
Big numbers can be intimidating. Some people are more comfortable talking, instead, about small numbers. Here’s an example. In this video, called “Commission Meeting Million Dollar error Sept-23-2009“, a woman identified as Mrs. Carter asks two questions. Here’s a partial transcript: MRS. CARTER: “There were two things that were brought up at the budget committee […]