Sounds like a good idea to me. Finally, when someone says “that’s a hella-big number,” I’ll know exactly what they’re talking about. I don’t know whether it will go through or not, but it’s likely to get adopted colloquially regardless. It’s already pretty much there.
Archive of posts filed under the Mathematics category.
A Rant About Computer Books
I really, really wish that computer book authors would pay more attention to their work. I know that I’ve mentioned the Montgomery reduction algorithm here before, and the sad state of nearly all of the few things that describe it. I finally got it to work properly a while back, thanks in part to the [...]
Busy, Busy, Busy…
There was no entry yesterday because I was deep in a programming project. Very deep… I was up and at it at 8am, and other than a few very short breaks, kept going until 3am this morning. And that’s on top of about six hours on it the day before. Around 1995, I started writing [...]