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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 | |