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Number-Crunching

Hardcover • 2011 • English

Number-Crunching

By Paul J. Nahin

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About the book

How do technicians repair broken communications cables at the bottom of the ocean without actually seeing them? What's the likelihood of plucking a needle out of a haystack the size of the Earth? And is it possible to use computers to create a universal library of everything ever written or every photo ever taken? These are just some of the intriguing questions that best-selling popular math writer Paul Nahin tackles in "Number-Crunching". Through brilliant math ideas and entertaining stories, N...Show more

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ISBN

9780691144252

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

Number-Crunching

Format

Hardcover

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