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- catalog contributor b4558046.
- catalog created "[1961]".
- catalog date "1961".
- catalog date "[1961]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[1961]".
- catalog description "Includes bibliography.".
- catalog description "pt. I. Large numbers and their arithmetic. Numbers in the world -- The principal uses of numbers -- The world of numbers -- Writing numbers -- Powers and exponents -- The names of really large numbers -- The law of exponents -- Scientific notation -- How large is large? -- Approximate numbers and orders of magnitude -- Approximate computation -- The rough art of estimation -- Small numbers -- Why negative exponents? -- The large and the small -- Division by zero: The road to paradox -- pt. II. Large numbers at work. The long long trail of [pi constant] -- The long trail continued: computing machines meet normal numbers -- Back over the trail -- The personality of numbers -- Casting out nines; the number theory of residues -- The hardest of the simple problems -- Infinities beyond infinity: the growth of sequences -- Atomic numbers, astronomical numbers, and where is man? -- Appendices: I. Some selected magnitudes in science -- II. Weights, measures, and equivalents -- III. Formulas for measurement.".
- catalog extent "165 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Lore of large numbers.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Lore of large numbers.".
- catalog isPartOf "New mathematical library, 6".
- catalog issued "1961".
- catalog issued "[1961]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "[New York] Random House".
- catalog relation "Lore of large numbers.".
- catalog subject "512.81".
- catalog subject "Number theory.".
- catalog subject "QA241 .D34".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. Large numbers and their arithmetic. Numbers in the world -- The principal uses of numbers -- The world of numbers -- Writing numbers -- Powers and exponents -- The names of really large numbers -- The law of exponents -- Scientific notation -- How large is large? -- Approximate numbers and orders of magnitude -- Approximate computation -- The rough art of estimation -- Small numbers -- Why negative exponents? -- The large and the small -- Division by zero: The road to paradox -- pt. II. Large numbers at work. The long long trail of [pi constant] -- The long trail continued: computing machines meet normal numbers -- Back over the trail -- The personality of numbers -- Casting out nines; the number theory of residues -- The hardest of the simple problems -- Infinities beyond infinity: the growth of sequences -- Atomic numbers, astronomical numbers, and where is man? -- Appendices: I. Some selected magnitudes in science -- II. Weights, measures, and equivalents -- III. Formulas for measurement.".
- catalog title "The lore of large numbers.".
- catalog type "text".