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There’s a specific number, Graham’s number, so large that thinking about it could collapse your brain into a black hole.
This number is so enormous that if you tried to store it in your brain, the information density would be so great that your brain would collapse into a black hole according to physics. Yet it was created to solve a relatively simple problem in geometry.
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The number 6174 is known as Kaprekar’s constant.
Take any four-digit number, arrange its digits in ascending and descending order, subtract the smaller from the larger,...
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The digits of pi have been calculated to over 31 trillion digits, yet we only need 39 to calculate the circumference of the observable universe.
Despite our fascination with calculating pi to more digits, we need surprisingly few for practical purposes. NASA uses...
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The number of possible arrangements of a deck of cards is about 8×10^67.
This number is so large that if every human who ever lived had been shuffling cards their entire...