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" A number for your thoughts : "
Stephen P. Richards.
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BL
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1005353
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b759723
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| Main Entry
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Richards, Stephen P.
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| Title & Author
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A number for your thoughts : : facts and speculations about numbers from Euclid to the latest computers /\ Stephen P. Richards.
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New Providence, N.J. :: S.P. Richards,, ©1982.
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207 pages ;; 23 cm
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0960822402
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: 9780960822409
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| Contents
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Counting -- The search for prime numbers -- The world record holders -- The distribution of primes -- Prime races, emirps, and more -- The baffling law of Benford -- What is so special about 6174? -- Number patterns and symmetries -- Numbers perfect, friendly, and weird -- How do these series end? -- Fermat's legendary last theorem -- Shapely numbers and Mr. Waring. -- Magic squares and cubes -- How can anything so simple be so difficult? -- Nearly all numbers are insane -- Cyclic numbers and their secret -- Pi, a transcendental number -- Most numbers are normal, but it's tough to find one -- A different way of counting; geometric numbers -- Two dimensional numbers -- Counting the infinite.
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Number theory.
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Numération.
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Number theory.
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| Dewey Classification
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512/.7
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QA241.R5
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