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The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Numbers: Revised Edition (Penguin Press Science)

PublisherPenguin Books
CategoryMathematics

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Author(s)David Wells
PublisherPenguin Books
ISBN / ASIN0140261494
ISBN-139780140261493
CategoryMathematics
MarketplaceFrance  🇫🇷

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From minus one and its square root, via cyclic, weird, amicable, perfect, untouchable and lucky numbers, aliquot sequences, the Cattle problem, Pascal's triangle and the Syracuse algorithm, music, magic and maps, pancakes, polyhedra and palindromes, to numbers so large that they can boggle the imagination, all you ever wanted to know about numbers is here. There is even a comprehensive index for those annoying occasions when you remember the name but can't recall the number. Kaprekar number? Ah, yes, of course...

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