$47.47
Mysterious water bills and fambly lore.
Numerals
A quiz from The Chicago Manual of Style: Chicago Style Workout 77: Numerals.
Prime collaborations
Pure joy, tangentially related to prime numbers: the Supremes and the Temptations singing each other’s hits on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Cicadas in their primes
Why do cicadas emerge and thirteen- and seventeen-year intervals?
−0°
My iPhone tells me that the temperature this morning is −0°F. Not 0°, −0°.
“Zillions”
A fine episode of Helen Zaltzman’s podcast The Allusionist, about hyperbolic indefinite numerals.
Apropos of yesterday
I saw the number 29.
Random number
108.
Another random number
A random number between 1 and 1,000, generated by a journey on the New York subway system this summer.
π Day
March 14
π Day
Excerpt from New Yorker profile of the Chudnovsky borthers, calculators of π
Lucky numbers
Lucky number shortage in fortune-cookie factory
123456
My wife Elaine mentioned yesterday an observation of Leonard Bernstein's in his lecture-series The Unanswered Question -- that audiences i...