A mythical number is a number used and accepted as deriving from scientific investigation and/or careful selection, but whose origin is unknown and whose basis is unsubstantiated. An example is the number 48 billion, which has often been accepted as the number of dollars per year of identity theft. This number "has appeared in hundreds of news stories, including a New York Times piece" despite the fact that it has been shown repeatedly to be highly inaccurate. The term was coined in 1971 by , one of the founders of the Hudson Institute. The origins of such numbers are akin to those of urban legends and may include (among others): * misinterpretation of examples * extrapolation from apparently similar fields * especially successful pranks * comical results * guess-estimates by public officials * deliberate misinformation (Wikipedia).
There are a lot more numbers than I thought there were - MegaFavNumbers
A short video detailing my favorite number larger than 1 million! There are so many numbers out there it was hard to choose from, but I’m glad I could participate in the #MegaFavNumbers series
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#MegaFavNumbers What’s your Mega Favourite Number?
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Exploring an amazing pattern that forms when we multiply numbers built only with the one digit
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Imaginary numbers are any numbers that include the imaginary number i. A mix of imaginary and real numbers gives you what’s called a complex number. The primary reason we use imaginary numbers is to give us a way to find the root (radical) of a negative number. There’s no way to use real
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What Positive Number Doubles When The Last Digit Moves To The First Digit? Riddle For "Geniuses"
If the last digit of this POSITIVE whole number becomes the first digit, the resulting number is exactly twice as large. My number is the smallest whole number with this property. What is my number? Watch the video for a solution. I'll give you a hint: you are unlikely to solve for the ans
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What are Irrational Numbers? | Number System | Don't Memorise
Watch this video to know more about Rational numbers, Irrational Numbers, Real Numbers and Number System. To learn more about Irrational Numbers, enroll in our full course now: https://infinitylearn.com/microcourses?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=Soical&utm_campaign=DM&utm_content=CtRtXoT_
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MegaFavNumbers | 8.07x10^67 vs. 137,327,459,106,673,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
This video compares the number of ways to shuffle a deck of cards to the number of atoms on Earth. #MegaFavNumbers 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 vs 137,327,459,106,673,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00
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Literature and Gaming: Exploring the Role of Story in Interactive Media
From the Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series; Tain Barzso, Lecturer in the Department of English at Stanford University examines the Role of Story in Interactive Media. This lecture explores the ways in which story defines the difference between intellectual puzzles and immersive game
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The physics and biology of flying mythical beasts (feat. the yogscast)
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Why is the Heart Shaped Like That?
Where did the heart shape come from? We have a theory! GMM 379! Good Mythical MORE: http://youtu.be/cpRAgFfj91g SUBSCRIBE for daily episodes: http://bit.ly/subrl2 **** PREVIOUS episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8gY-bwYNBU NEXT episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekkxjIx-TD
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Yu the Engineer and Flood Stories from China: Crash Course World Mythology #17
On this Crash Course in World Mythology, Mike Rugnetta is teaching you about floods and deluges, specifically in China. In Chinese myth, flood stories pretty much all revolve around a guy named Yu the Great, or Yu the Engineer. In the distant past, he was tasked with stopping the flooding
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Mythical Caves and Gardens: Crash Course World Mythology #32
This week, Mike Rugnetta is teaching you about mythical gardens and caves, which appear in cultures all over the world. Caves and gardens can stand for different things, but in the two stories we're talking about today, they tie into the creation of the world in general, and the origins of
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Cities of Myth: Crash Course World Mythology #35
This week on Crash Course Mythology, we're getting urban. Mike Rugnetta is the man with the orange umbrella who's about to give you a free tour of mythical cities. We'll talk about a few cities that didn't exist, but we're going to focus on real cities with mythical founding stories. We'll
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#2 Idenitfying Irrational numbers
An example that helps in identifying irrational numbers and understanding the basic concepts of irrational numbers.
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6 Lost Cities of the World I British Pathé
There are legends about cities that are lost or have never been found. So Indy went on an expedition to our archives to find out more about lost cities such as Troy, Paititi or Atlantis. Do you know any lost cities that we might have forgotten? Let us know in the comments. Click here fo
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Families of abelian varieties with a common isogeny factor. - Cadoret - Workshop 2 - CEB T2 2019
Anna Cadoret (Sorbonne Université) / 24.06.2019 Families of abelian varieties with a common isogeny factor. I will discuss the following question, raised by Roessler and Szamuely. Let X be a a variety over a field k and A an abelian scheme over X. Assume there exists an abelian variety
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Mythical Horses: Crash Course World Mythology #37
Horses have been human companions for thousands of years, and have been essential companions and tools for the development of human culture. So, it makes sense that horses would make their way into our most important stories. Today, we're looking at horses in myth, and we'll talk about nob
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Dante in Translation (ITAL 310) This lecture focuses on the cantos of Cacciaguida (Paradise XV-XVII). The pilgrim's encounter with his great-great grandfather brings to the fore the relationship between history, self and exile. Through his ancestor's mythology of their native Florence,
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Different Types of Numbers on the number line, lesson 1 #shorts
Watch the full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcxK3_sROZA&list=PL14bv5vXK2WWuODhGbpPQA0GamV5ohOVb&index=1 Natural Numbers (N), (also called positive integers, counting numbers, or natural numbers); They are the numbers {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, …} Whole Numbers (W). This is the set of na
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