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Fun Puzzles and Quick Thoughts | |
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Attack of the Amateurs | |
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Why Don't We Use Roman Numerals Anymore? | |
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In a Casino | |
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The Ultimate Bible Code | |
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How Much Blood? | |
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Where Are the Ants? | |
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Spidery Math | |
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Lost in Hyperspace | |
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Along Came a Spider | |
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Numbers beyond Imagination | |
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Cupid's Arrow | |
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Poseidon Arrays | |
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Scales of Justice | |
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Mystery Squares | |
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Quincunx | |
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Jerusalem Overdrive | |
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The Pipes of Papua | |
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The Fractal Society | |
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The Triangle Cycle | |
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IQ-Block | |
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Riffraff | |
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Klingon Paths | |
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Ouroboros Autophagy | |
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Interview with a Number | |
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The Dream-Worms of Atlantis | |
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Satanic Cycles | |
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Persistence | |
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Hallucinogenic Highways | |
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Quirky Questions, Lists, and Surveys | |
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Why Was the First Woman Mathematician Murdered? | |
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What If We Receive Messages from the Stars? | |
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A Ranking of the 5 Strangest Mathematicians Who Ever Lived | |
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Einstein, Ramanujan, Hawking | |
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A Ranking of the 8 Most Influential Female Mathematicians | |
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A Ranking of the 5 Saddest Mathematical Scandals | |
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The 10 Most Important Unsolved Mathematical Problems | |
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A Ranking of the 10 Most Influential Mathematicians Who Ever Lived | |
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What Is Godel's Mathematical Proof of the Existence of God? | |
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A Ranking of the 10 Most Influential Mathematicians Alive Today | |
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A Ranking of the 10 Most Interesting Numbers | |
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The Unabomber's 10 Most Mathematical Technical Papers | |
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The 10 Mathematical Formulas That Changed the Face of the World | |
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The 10 Most Difficult-to-Understand Areas of Mathematics | |
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The 10 Strangest Mathematical Titles Ever Published | |
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The 15 Most Famous Transcendental Numbers | |
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What Is Numerical Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? | |
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Who Is the Number King? | |
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What 1 Question Would You Add? | |
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Cube Maze | |
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Fiendishly Difficult Digital Delights | |
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Hailstone Numbers | |
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The Spring of Khosrow Carpet | |
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The Omega Prism | |
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The Incredible Hunt for Double Smoothly Undulating Integers | |
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Alien Snow: A Tour of Checkerboard Worlds | |
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Beauty, Symmetry, and Pascal's Triangle | |
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Audioactive Decay | |
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Dr. Googol's Prime Plaid | |
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Saippuakauppias | |
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Emordnilap Numbers | |
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The Dudley Triangle | |
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Mozart Numbers | |
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Hyperspace Prisons | |
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Triangular Numbers | |
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Hexagonal Cats | |
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The X-Files Number | |
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A Low-Calorie Treat | |
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The Hunt for Elusive Squarions | |
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Katydid Sequences | |
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Pentagonal Pie | |
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An A? | |
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Humble Bits | |
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Mr. Fibonacci's Neighborhood | |
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Apocalyptic Numbers | |
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The Wonderful Emirp, 1,597 | |
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The Big Brain of Brahmagupta | |
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1,001 Scheherazades | |
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73,939,133 | |
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[characters not reproducible]-Numbers from Los Alamos | |
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Creator Numbers [characters not reproducible] | |
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Princeton Numbers | |
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Parasite Numbers | |
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Madonna's Number Sequence | |
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Apocalyptic Powers | |
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The Leviathan Number [characters not reproducible] | |
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The Safford Number: 365,365,365,365,365,365 | |
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The Aliens from Independence Day | |
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One Decillion Cheerios | |
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Undulation in Monaco | |
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The Latest Gossip on Narcissistic Numbers | |
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The abcdefghij Problem | |
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Grenade Stacking | |
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The 450-Pound Problem | |
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The Hunt for Primes in Pi | |
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Schizophrenic Numbers | |
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Perfect, Amicable, and Sublime Numbers | |
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Prime Cycles and [characters not reproducible] | |
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Cards, Frogs, and Fractal Sequences | |
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Fractal Checkers | |
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Doughnut Loops | |
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Everything You Wanted to Know about Triangles but Were Afraid to Ask | |
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Cavern Genesis as a Self-Organizing System | |
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Magic Squares, Tesseracts, and Other Oddities | |
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Faberge Eggs Synthesis | |
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Beauty and Gaussian Rational Numbers | |
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A Brief History of Smith Numbers | |
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Alien Ice Cream | |
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The Peruvian Collection | |
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The Huascaran Box | |
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The Intergalactic Zoo | |
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The Lobsterman from Lima | |
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The Incan Tablets | |
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Chinchilla Overdrive | |
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Peruvian Laser Battle | |
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The Emerald Gambit | |
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Wise Viracocha | |
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Zoologic | |
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Andromeda Incident | |
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Yin or Yang | |
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A Knotty Challenge at Tacna | |
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An Incident at Chavin de Huantar | |
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An Odd Symmetry | |
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The Monolith at Madre de Dios | |
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Amazon Dissection | |
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3 Weird Problems with 3 | |
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Zen Archery | |
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Treadmills and Gears | |
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Anchovy Marriage Test | |
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Further Exploring | |
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Further Reading | |
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About the Author | |
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Index | |