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Take a bar of metal and put a single notch in it. The two lengths thus defined have a relationship that can be expressed as the ratio between them. In theory, therefore, any rational number can be expressed with a single mark on a bar of
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“Each member of the school was forced to swear an oath never to reveal to the outside world any of their mathematical discoveries.”
― Fermat's Enigma
― Fermat's Enigma
“The Brotherhood was effectively a religious community, and one of the idols they worshiped was Number.”
― Fermat's Enigma
― Fermat's Enigma
“although there are plenty of numbers whose divisors add up to one less than the number itself, that is to say only slightly defective, there appear to be no numbers that are slightly excessive.”
― Fermat's Enigma
― Fermat's Enigma
“when Kibushi used the information without citing her, she snuck into the showers at the gymnasium and beat him to death with a ceramic workbench cap.”
― The Vital Abyss
― The Vital Abyss
“Take a bar of metal and put a single notch in it. The two lengths thus defined have a relationship that can be expressed as the ratio between them. In theory, therefore, any rational number can be expressed with a single mark on a bar of metal. Using a simple alphabetic code, a mark that calculated to a ratio of .1215225 could be read as 12-15-22-5, or “l-o-v-e.” The complete plays of Shakespeare could be written in a single mark, if it were possible to measure accurately enough.”
― The Vital Abyss
― The Vital Abyss
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