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the development of the binary system of representing numbers. That development, on hold for a while, eventually led to our modern digital age – there are those digits again.
From Pythagoras and Euclid to the modern practitioners, mathematicians have come up with all manner of special numbers like primes, pseudoprimes, and palindromic primes, composite numbers, square
roots, perfect numbers, Fibonacci numbers, Cullen numbers, Avogadro’s number, ad infinitum. Speaking of ad infinitum,
don’t ever forget the exact number for π – that’s pi. And if you love numbers, as did the late Stephen Hawking, numbers can take you to the universe. L
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