Huge Numbers Canning & Preserving New secrets

New secrets

This captivating book about dendrochronology--the study of tree rings--uncovers the stories of 10 species of ancient trees

Roy Claire Potter

Accompanied by a colorful pattern

Huge Numbers Canning & Preserving New secretsBy: Richard Elwes How humanity's long pursuit of ever larger numbers broke the boundaries of mathematics and propelled us into the Information Age What if, every time you wanted to write down 1,000,000, you had to draw a picture of a god? And what if that number were the biggest you had a symbol for? If you were doing math in ancient Egypt, those were the rules: anything bigger broke math. As mathematician Richard Elwes shows in Huge Numbers, this is