[Surfside] The Secret Lives of Numbers

Paul Makepeace bookmarks@paulm.com
Mon, 9 Sep 2002 06:34:25 +0100


``The authors conducted an exhaustive empirical study, with the aid of
custom software, public search engines and powerful statistical
techniques, in order to determine the relative popularity of every
integer between 0 and one million. The resulting information exhibits an
extraordinary variety of patterns which reflect and refract our culture,
our minds, and our bodies.''

http://www.turbulence.org/Works/nums/applet.html [requires java]

Beautiful!