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the universe's oldest language, spoken fluently by everyone and understood by almost no one
means Numbers are the symbols and concepts we use to count, measure, label, and calculate — the abstractions behind quantity itself.
from From the Latin "numerus" (number, sum, rank), which flowed into Old French as "nombre" before settling into English. That intrusive "b" is a fossil of the French spelling, smuggled in even though no one really pronounces it. The Latin root is thought to be related to a Greek cousin "nemein," to distribute or allot — fitting for a word about parceling the world into countable shares.
- zero's youth
- Zero arrived centuries after counting did
- infinity sizes
- Some infinities are provably bigger than others
- prime supply
- Primes never run out, proven by Euclid
- irrational pi
- Pi's digits march on forever without repeating
- google origin
- Googol inspired a search engine's misspelled name
pi — mathematical constant ≈ 3.14159, ratio of circle circumference to diameter
euler's number — mathematical constant e ≈ 2.71828, base of natural logarithms
golden ratio — mathematical constant φ ≈ 1.618, appears in nature and architecture
graham's number — unimaginably large number used in ramsey theory mathematics, 1977