The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers
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Revised with nearly 200 new entries, this dictionary contains all the information that anyone ever wanted to know about numbers—from minus one and its square root to cyclic, weird, perfect, untouchable and lucky numbers to Pascal's triangle and the Syracuse algorithm to numbers so large they boggle the imagination.
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