Tag Archives: Representing Numbers

Happy 5 2 0 1!

Posted on January 1, 2016 by Win Smith

Last year,  in Happy 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1!, I discussed an interesting way to represent numbers based on their prime factorization.  For example, 63 is represented by 0 2 0 1 because 63 = 20 … Continue reading →

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Happy 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1!

Posted on January 1, 2015 by Win Smith

Most systems for representing numbers are a combination of the visible and invisible. In the familiar base-ten system, we represent numbers by linking visible digits to an invisible scaffold of powers of ten. For example, 534.08 implies the respective multiplication … Continue reading →

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A New(?) Way to Visualize Numbers

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Win Smith

After I saw Matt Henderson’s visual demonstration of how the geometric series 1/4 + 1/16 + 1/64 . . . adds to 1/3, I thought about how to generalize this for any geometric series. This led to a way to … Continue reading →

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