Number Drafting: Part 2 -- Foraging for (Modestly) Large Numbers
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Second article in Ralph Griswold's Number Drafting series, on choosing interesting, modestly large numbers as sources for weaving designs. It compares 377 with the US national debt, the radius of the universe and the largest known prime, and says a few hundred digits are enough for weaving. Candidates include primes, Fibonacci terms, Gödel numbers, China's population and the digits of π, e and φ. The last two pages show bit-pattern drawdown images made from some of these numbers.
- Type
- Web Doc
- Date
- March 17, 2004
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
- Archive notes
- Last revised August 1, 2004
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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