Learning about number theory makes me feel schizophrenic. Numbers have so many weird properties and patterns that seem like they should be messages from our Reptilian Humanoid Overlords or something
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have you gotten to base prime yet? (i'm writing a lightning talk on number bases for a new year's eve party so it's just on my mind) (if you have other interesting observations about number theory, it'd be cool to hear your fun facts too)
I'm not super deep yet, so my observations are probably not super insightful :p I have been reflecting that a lot of the stuff I've learned so far (like digit summing) feels weird until you realize it was developed in an era where people did computation by hand.
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It's also pretty cool that early computers used things like digit summing to check their own math. It'd be fascinating to learn the history of computation algorithms and how they've changed now that computation is mostly not being done by people
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Do you have any recommend readings? Thanks.
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Oh yah the whole "carry the one" thing is a lot more intuitive in abacus format rather than 15 + 99 -------
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