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Quote: "despite being so special there are an awful lot of them."

Question: why do people find these numbers so special i must not understand the importance?

Comment: this article touch on some very interesting things. one being how special one is to everyone and i have to agree it is a very specail number. It was the first number that i learened how to understand. more Importantly it has helped to be the gate way to math for alot of people because once you understand one you can say one plus another one and then that can explain how you get to the next number two. I think these numbers are the easest for me to understand primes and natural numbers when it comes to the other articles i prefer reading about these because i can realate with these numbers and there easier to look at. i find it so interesting that a 16 year old boy discovered the pairs in math I wish i can find something in math like that. amicable numbers are supposable perfect but who desides what was perfect or not. i think these are some really interesting ideas brought up in this reading

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Quote: we now know that much of the world is invisible to us because the human i can not see.

question: I feel like this is something that took people along time to grasp what was it that made people realize that decimals and small numbers were real when so many people believed there were only whole and rational numbers?

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i find it amazing that we have found smaller numbers that have lead us to the world of science more like with out this math we would not have been able to do alot of the things we do today. i always have been so interested in science and have never really cared for math but this makes me have a deeper appreciation for all the people that have spent there life trying to find the information that i talk for granted of a daily bases. math opens up a knew world it helps you to see things that you may never see but you can understand. and with out this information you know nothing truly about the world around you. another thing that i found interesting about this article is that they used counting boards to find out information. that seems like alot of work and how in are time we are so lazy its hard for us to even pull out a calculator its really crazy.

i still cant see how they could understand this in there time because i dont know how i could grasp all this information when you think about math and small numbers it makes me feel like things are less clear instead of more clear

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Quote: some people ask weather a hand-clap in a forest that nobody will actually sound. of course it does sound does not require ears, it is a vibration of molecules. similarly a number or a pattern that is seen by no one is still a number, weather we are there or not.

Question: I realize that sound has vibration but I dont understand how they bring the numbers in to this?

Comment: i like how it says a number is a number weather we see it or not i think that is really interesting because i constantly find myself saying you cant get a number from this or that. this helped me realize that just because i don't see a number now or a pattern maybe another animal can. It also makes me think we have so much time to find out new numbers about the world like we always are finding knew ways to solve things or math we didn't understand before. Its really interesting to think that math needs us and we need math. This reading helped me have a better understanding of math and why we do it. It makes me think its more important then i thought before i read this. You always hear people say math is important but this puts it more into perspective and reality to me.