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Does Champernowne's Constant Make You Laugh?

In Scientific American's "Roots of Unity" blog, Evelyn Lamb riffs on numbers' relative abilities to amuse.

Some numbers derive humor from cultural associations, others from linguistic characteristics of their names, yet others from their mathematical properties.

Read the post (and ponder your vote for funniest number).

Start Date: 
Wednesday, August 21, 2013