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Fantastic Numbers, with Antonio Padilla

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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How to Describe a Number Without the Visual Aids

i was really blown away with this, because you may often hear the standard analogies concerning airplanes and pyramids. But but i hadn't, i hadn't heard this particular example for it. I mean, it's true f like taxi drivers, if you imagine a taxi driver that's driving around, i don't know, any city, new york, wherever,. They can probably leap forward in time by probably, i think about micro second over the course of their career. So they've got the knowledge, and then they have that as well. Andyo, so these you need new notation, new sort of symbolism, a sort of even described the number. There's just no

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