$47.47Mysterious water bills and fambly lore.#fambly#film#numbers·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jun 24, 2024$47.47
NumeralsA quiz from The Chicago Manual of Style: Chicago Style Workout 77: Numerals.#ChicagoManualofStyle#numbers·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jun 28, 2023Numerals
Prime collaborationsPure joy, tangentially related to prime numbers: the Supremes and the Temptations singing each other’s hits on The Ed Sullivan Show.#music#numbers·mleddy.blogspot.com·Dec 1, 2022Prime collaborations
Cicadas in their primesWhy do cicadas emerge and thirteen- and seventeen-year intervals?#numbers·mleddy.blogspot.com·Dec 1, 2022Cicadas in their primes
−0°My iPhone tells me that the temperature this morning is −0°F. Not 0°, −0°.#numbers#weather·mleddy.blogspot.com·Feb 9, 2021−0°
“Zillions”A fine episode of Helen Zaltzman’s podcast The Allusionist, about hyperbolic indefinite numerals.#numbers#words·mleddy.blogspot.com·Aug 25, 2017“Zillions”
Apropos of yesterdayI saw the number 29.#life#numbers·mleddy.blogspot.com·Oct 1, 2013Apropos of yesterday
Another random numberA random number between 1 and 1,000, generated by a journey on the New York subway system this summer.#numbers·mleddy.blogspot.com·Dec 6, 2011Another random number
π DayExcerpt from New Yorker profile of the Chudnovsky borthers, calculators of π#numbers·mleddy.blogspot.com·Mar 16, 2009π Day
Lucky numbersLucky number shortage in fortune-cookie factory#life#numbers·mleddy.blogspot.com·Apr 5, 2008Lucky numbers
123456My wife Elaine mentioned yesterday an observation of Leonard Bernstein's in his lecture-series The Unanswered Question -- that audiences i...#JamesJoyce#life#Nabokov#numbers·mleddy.blogspot.com·Feb 1, 2006123456