Even More Numbers

Hi All,

In keeping with the last post of titled "What About That Number?" todays' blog entry deals with numbers.  Specifically big, big, big numbers.

The link to the '10 Enormous Numbers' come from Listverse back in 2012.  The publish date might be old but the content is not!  Numbers like a googol, googolplex and Skewe's number.

Some links to other large numbers:
Wikipedia - Astronomically Large Numbers 
Knuth's up-arrow notation 
Wolfram MathWorld - Large Numbers

Enjoy,
Stu 

Random Numbers - How Cool Is That?

 

Hi All,

In my world random numbers are cool.  Very cool.  So...let's start at the beginning.  The very beginning - and we'll go from there.

What is a random number?  Click on this article from Wikipedia which discusses the uses of random numbers and more.

Why are random numbers so difficult to generate 'randomly'? Well, the Wikipedia article also discusses why 'true' random numbers and pseudorandom numbers are so difficult to generate.

Click on this link from Random.org to generate your own random numbers to generate passwords, randomize lists, jazz scales and more.

Click on this link to learn about Random.org and how it got started. To get a perspective on just exactly what randomness and random number are, click on this link from Random.org.

Enjoy the random sites... :)

Stu

Numbers, Numbers, Numbers Everywhere!

Hi All,

Don't know if you know this about me, but I am a numbers guy. From memorizing baseball statistics, to learning the DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification code for you library newbies...), to well, just liking math...I really, really love numbers.

So, in keeping with the A is for...fruit/vegetable entries and the A is for...(using Google seeing what auto-fill in results pop up) set of entries; I just thought of a new set of entries! What about using numbers and typing said number into Google?

What would happen if I put in - for example - the number 1 or 2 or 3 and so on...and what would happen with special numbers like '4' (July 4th - Independence Day) or 1776 (year of the founding of the United States) or other fun/special/unique numbers? We'll find out since I'm going to start a whole new set of blog posts on this theme very shortly! Wish me well -and of course, enjoy the posts!


Click on this link for the phrase 'numbers' - the link goes to an old favorite of mine: Wikipedia. The entry is interesting, but you might also want to scroll down to the bottom of the page and select a few of the external links like 'What is the World's Favorite Number?' from NPR...click here for the link.

FYI, I'll start with the number '1' in a future entry - be sure to check it out!

Regards,
Stu