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Blast into Math! Contents
6 Mathematical perspectives: all your base are belong to us 123
6.1 Number bases: infinitely many mathematical perspectives 123
6.2 Fractions in bases 134
6.3 Exercises 137
6.4 Examples and hints 140
7 Analytic number theory: ants, ghosts and giants 146
7.1 Sequences: mathematical ants 146
7.2 Real numbers and friendly rational numbers 162
7.3 Series: a tower of mathematical ants 171
7.4 Decimal expansions 184
7.5 The Prime Number Theorem 194
7.6 Exercises 202
7.7 Examples and hints 205
8 Afterword 213
9 Bibliography 215
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