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#1 2007-09-23 00:32:51

MathsIsFun
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Running the Numbers

Statistics through Photography: http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php

The artist, chris jordan, says "My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone"


"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..."  - Leon M. Lederman

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#2 2007-09-23 05:58:11

bossk171
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Re: Running the Numbers

Simply awesome. I wish I had the money to go to the exhibit.


There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who can use induction.

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#3 2007-09-23 06:36:23

Ricky
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Re: Running the Numbers

Makes for an awesome game of "Where's Waldo".


"In the real world, this would be a problem.  But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist.  So we'll go ahead and do that now..."

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#4 2007-09-23 10:13:00

luca-deltodesco
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Re: Running the Numbers

haha, pretty cool


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The End Of All Things To Come.

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#5 2007-09-23 12:43:12

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Re: Running the Numbers

How did he do it? Endless cut-and-paste? Automated somehow?


"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..."  - Leon M. Lederman

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#6 2007-09-23 13:55:07

John E. Franklin
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Re: Running the Numbers

Waldo?  I see the "WAL" and "Morse".


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#7 2007-09-23 19:03:17

Daniel123
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Re: Running the Numbers

I like the bottle one... and the plane one smile

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#8 2007-09-23 20:05:43

landof+
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Re: Running the Numbers

Cool, really belongs here!


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