For his part, Mechain said he feared the “fanaticism” of the people. His fears were not groundless. Thirty-five years before, a young cartographer working for Cassini III had been surveying from a church tower in the Montagnes Noires, not fifty miles away, when he had been hauled down from his ladder and all but hacked […]
Number Quotes
There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him. (Proverbs 6:16)
Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.
This what the Lord says: “For three sins of Damascus, even for four, I will not turn back my wrath. (Amos 1:3)
Why isn’t the number 11 pronounced onety one?
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numbers, and those who don’t.
The Lord said “Feed my sheep”, he did not say, “Count them”
The larger the sample size (n) the more confident you can be that your sample mean is a good representation of the population mean. In other words, the “n” justifies the means.
Chipping away at gigantic unproved postulates. Investigating the properties of common whole numbers and ending up in the wilds of analysis. Intoxicating theorems. Nagging little symmetries. The secrets hidden deep inside the great big primes. The way one formula or number or expression keeps turning up in the most unexpected places. The infinite. The infinitesimal. […]
Torture numbers, and they’ll confess to anything.
