His copious free time being afforded by the fact that his college in Cambridge was closed due to an outbreak of Plague Also this year he made discoveries in gravitation, optics, infinitesimals, & invented the cat flap One of those above may be apocryphal
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Innovation stems from vacation, works for me
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How did he compute 1/72.2^9 and so on? That's beyond me
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He binge watched a series

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Now thinking about that, how many genius humanity has these days that have their time stolen by frivolous social media, TV, tubes, Netflix, etc... We live in a time where boredom has no playmates...
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The enthusiasm of great mathematicians for calculation receives much less emphasis than it deserves. Newton was by no means the only master for whom this sort of activity was an end in itself, nor was he the only beneficiary of the intuition that vast calculations often bestow.
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5, 28, 72... Can you hint at the series there?
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Formula at http://oeis.org/A054388 . Kudos to anyone who could've figured that out!
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