Huge Numbers the rainbow snail

Huge Numbers the rainbow snailHow humanitys long pursuit of ever larger numbers broke the boundaries of mathematics and propelled us into the Information Age A charming tourJordan Ellenburg, author of Shape What if, every time you wanted to write down 1,000,000, you had to draw a picture of a god? And what if that number were the biggest you had a symbol for? If you were doing math in ancient Egypt, those were the rules: anything bigger broke math. As mathematician Richard Elwes

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