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#190 – Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries
Lex Fridman Podcast
Two to the Power of a Large and Two to a Negative Power
There's a general theory of distance where you say any definition you make that satisfies certain axioms deserves to be called a distance. So two to a large power is this metric, a very small number and two to a negative power is a very big number. And then I'm starting to visualize different binary numbers and how they, which ones are close to each other. That's exactly the way we would think of it. It's almost like binary numbers written in reverse right? Because in a binary expansion, two numbers are close,. In the two attic metric, a binary number is very small. If it ends with a lot of zeros and then the decimal point got you so it
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