Saturday, March 9, 2013

Mark Twain on Mathematics

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MATHEMATICS

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

- Notebook #22, Spring 1883 - Sept. 1884 


Light year calculations

Clemens tries to calculate a light year.






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