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Adam SpencerMaths AI curiosity and general geekiness including my weekly NerdNews newsletters
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6714: the answer.
Today we met the awesome number 6174.
Take any 4-digit number (that doesn’t repeat all of its digits), and create the largest and smallest numbers you can out of those 4 digits. Subtract the smaller from the larger and repeat.
You’ll fin...
6-7 is so 2025. Meet 6174!
Let’s play a game.
Pick a four-digit number, any one you like, as long as the digits aren’t all the same. Now rearrange those digits into the biggest number you can, then the smallest, and subtract small from big. Take the answer and do it...
A machine just read a scroll Vesuvius burnt shut in 79 AD.
How do you read a 2,000 year old scroll cooked to a crisp by no less than Mt Vesuvius? Hint, it’s the same imaging tech we use to design cutting edge cancer drugs.
(‘Smokin papyri: created using midjourney and imagen)
No smoking in th...
The greatest machine ever built is taking a well-earned breather.
On 29 June, the Large Hadron Collider smashes its last protons for four long years. NerdNews raises a glass to the 27-kilometre marvel that caught the Higgs, and peers down the tunnel at what its supercharged successor might find.
The...
It's cash a can time. Hello Aluminium!
With the greatest of respect to aluminium, it can feel a bit … common. An ordinary, run of the mill metal found in drink cans, saucepans, windows, lunch wrapping foil.
Well for a brief window in the 19th century it was exotic enough that...
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