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Mathematician Katie Steckles in why she likes 27 and why it makes a special appearance in Pi. 
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Professor Roger Bowley says poetry and numbers are more closely linked than you may think, citing Shakespeare's 14-line sonnets and iambic pentameter as examples.
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An expert on the philosophy of mathematics, Dr Jonathan Tallant, outlines some of the key arguments about whether or not numbers ACTUALLY EXIST? Exploring platonism, nominalism and fictionalism.
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The ancient Babylonians used a number system with base 60 (sexagesimal).
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Our ability to map numbers onto a physical space – such as along a line – must be learned... Articles about NUMBERS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=numbers
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Researchers at The Australian National University have developed the fastest random number generator in the world by listening to the 'sounds of silence'.
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Why five-sided figures pose a problem from Professor John Hunton - and a bit about the importance of Penrose Tiling. Professor Hunton works at the University...
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Chinese consumers pay too much for goods and services because of superstitions surrounding particular numbers, Binghamton University economist Zili Yang says. In a study published recently by The Journal of Socio-Economics, Yang reports that an aversion to the number 4, combined with a preference for the numbers 6 and 8, may translate into a “surcharge” of as much as 1.4 percent of China’s gross domestic product.
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What other amazing properties of Wau can you think of? Leave them in the comments.
Martin Daumiller's comment,
February 12, 2012 3:15 PM
Quite an "onesided" presentation of this ancient number... :)
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What Medieval mathematics have to do with remix culture, publishing entrepreneurship, and gamification.
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6174 is also known as Kaprekar's Constant. This video features University of Nottingham physics professor Roger Bowley, who is also featured on our Sixty Symbols channel at http://www.youtube.com/sixtysymbols
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We discuss the number 16 - a perfect square - and how sitting at table 16 led to something bigger for Matt Parker. In this video is Dr Ria Symonds from the U...
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Ask adults from the industrialized world what number is halfway between 1 and 9, and most will say 5. But pose the same question to small children, or people living in some traditional societies, and they're likely to answer..... Via Sandeep Gautam
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Of course, the number of digits in π is infinite, but over the years, as computers have become more powerful, we know many more of them than ever before. But it’s one thing to say that I can download trillions of digits of π and another to make some sort of sense out of all of these digits. Into this steps a team of researchers from Australia, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Simon Fraser University with some elegant visualizations of π. In a recent paper, they used a classic method of visualizing large strings of numbers: the random walk. More on "Pi": http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=pi
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Professor Laurence Eaves on Pythagorean Primes - and why 5, 13 and 137 are three of his favourites!? Fine structure constant on sixtysymbols at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlSLIW0gZtk
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THE symbols we use to represent numbers are, mathematically speaking, arbitrary. Now there is a way to write numbers so that their areas equal their numerical values. The font, called FatFonts, could transform the art of data visualisation, allowing a single infographic to convey both a visual overview and exact values.
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666 (and sometimes 616) is the notorious Number of the Beast... what's all that about? And what has roulette got to do with it!? Pete Watts shares all sorts ...
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Mathematics of Music and Buildings with Marcus du Sautoy This is from BBC's The Code -series...
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Endre Szemerédi wins prize for elucidating the links between numbers and information.
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7 is an example of a happy number, as opposed to sad numbers. What makes a number happy? Dr Ria Symonds is from the University of Nottingham. Website: http:/...
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Sussman’s technique is essentially to bounce light pulses off the “virtual particles” of quantum fluctuations, which randomizes the signature of the received light, and, because of the characteristics of the system he’s using, happens very quickly (Sussman claims Gbps key generation is possible, although his experiment is limited by the instruments available to 1 kHz).
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