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Math bytes : Google bombs, chocolate-covered pi, and other cool bits in computing / Timothy P. Chartier.
LIBRA QA93 .C47 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chartier, Timothy P.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics--Popular works.
- Mathematics.
- Computer science.
- Mathematics--Data processing.
- Mathematics--Data processing--Popular works.
- Computer science--Popular works.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 136 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- Your first byte
- Deceiving arithmetic
- Two by two
- Infinite detail
- Plot the course
- Doodling into a labyrinth
- Obama-cize yourself
- Painting with M&Ms
- Distorting reality
- A pretty mathematical face
- March MATHness
- Ranking a googol of bits
- A byte to go
- Up to the challenge
- List of figures.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691160603
- 0691160600
- OCLC:
- 854541619
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