2022-05-03

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Numberphile

Marcus du Sautoy on the clever use of mathematics to generate poetry... Episode sponsored by Backblaze online back-up - more at https://www.backblaze.com/numberphile

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See an extra video with some example sonnets using famous numbers and combinations chosen by Patreon supporters: /youtube/video/SqsH5K_M9Rs

Marcus du Sautoy website: https://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk

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We discuss the original book by Raymond Queneau "A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems" or "One Hundred Million Million Poems" (original French title: Cent mille milliards de poèmes). We discuss his work as an example of mathematical shortcuts - a favourite topic of Professor du Sautoy.

Giving the Star Wars opening crawl the n+7 treatment: https://www.bradyharanblog.com/blog/n7-writing

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