The weird and wonderful quest for unfathomably large numbers.
From cells in our bodies to measuring the universe, big numbers are everywhere.
We all know that numbers go on forever, that you could spend your life counting and never reach the end of the line, so there can’t be such a thing as a ‘biggest number’. Or can there?
To find out, David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee embark on an epic quest, revealing the answers to questions like: are there more grains of sand on Earth or stars in the universe? Is there enough paper on Earth to write out the digits of a googolplex? And what is a googolplex?
The Biggest Number in the World: A Journey to the Edge of Mathematics
- 作者： David Darling/ Agnijo Banerjee
- 出版社： ONEWorld Publications
- 出版日期： 2022-05-05
- ISBN碼： 9780861543052
- 編號： 1001294885999216
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