I’ve read several 2016 book reviews (one of them by Alvaro Videla) and thought I have read several books that have influenced my life enough for me to want to share them. It’s a bit hard to reproduce an order and establish some sort of significance, so the order I use will be rather arbitrary.
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The first love you never got around to (fully) express tugs at your heart like no other thing! For me, it was mathematics.
Some species of cicada emerge once every 17 years. It is believed that this long life cycle evolved in response to predators. Since 17 is a prime number, a predator with a shorter life cycle cannot reliably prey on the cicadas.
About a decade ago I was participating in a lot of programming challenges and one of those challenges was posted on a programming forum where people were interested in finding out who could make the most optimized version of common mathematical problems.
Pi ( π) is a symbol representing the ratio of a circle’s circumference and its diameter. Its value is 3.14159… followed by infinitely many digits.
Today’s news:
A new estimate shows Apple took 103.6 percent of the profits from all smartphone sales in the third quarter of 2016.
“Huh,” I said. “That doesn’t make a lot of sense. How can you take more than 100% of…
