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| | So using Ruby, what is the largest Fibonacci number we can calculate quickly?
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| | This week we continue our exploration of what numbers are, and where mathematicians keep finding weird ones. Last time we defined the real numbers, but it took a lot of work. Now we'll see how truly strange they are. They're so strange that it's tempting to avoid them and stick with something simpler. But the real numbers do a much better job of describing modeling the parts of the world we care about. Their weirdness is exactly what we need to guarantee that a bunch of
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| "If I were to awaken after having slept a thousand years, my first question would be: has the Riemann Hypothesis been proven?" - David Hilbert Steklov Institute memorial page Sergei Voronin was an expert in number theory, who studied the Riemann zeta function, but who sadly died young over twenty years ago. We discussed his...