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When our primitive instinct makes us treat the comparison of large numbers as logarithmic rather than linear—for instance, we feel like the gap between a trillion and a billion is the same as that between a billion and a million, because both are a thousand times bigger, when the jump to a trillion is really much bigger.
When young children are asked which number is halfway between one and nine, their answers are three instead of five, as given by those with formal schooling. Is this a case of logarithmic instinct, where the middle is in relation to multiplication rather than addition: 1 × 3 = 3, 3 × 3 = 9?
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Mrs. Jones thought that teaching complex numbers via imaginary tales might be a more interesting and creative way to introduce these “fictional numbers” to her students.
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Editors of both math and science journals notice the coronademia syndrome in both developed and developing countries, when men submitted up to 50% more articles than women.
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Jack has this battitude of pickpocketing old folks and tourists on weekends, at crowded night markets to reduce his chances of being caught.
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With rising infection and mortality rates in spite of a decent rate of vaccination in the population, a number of governments in the West are turning to maskism to contain the corona crisis in the face of deadlier variants.
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Even artists who are allergic to school math could demonstrate their numerical, geometric, or formulaic creativity through mathematical pointillism.
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No one knows how many original copies of “The Holey Bible”—a collectors’ item among both believers and unbelievers—are in circulation.
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