April 22, 2013
Prime Explorer: Exploring Patterns in Prime Number Spatial Layouts Prime Explorer [bigblueboo.com], developed by a San Francisco-based software company called Mode of Expression, provides an interactive view of all the prime numbers ranging from 1 to 62,500.

Prime Explorer: Exploring Patterns in Prime Number Spatial Layouts

Prime Explorer [bigblueboo.com], developed by a San Francisco-based software company called Mode of Expression, provides an interactive view of all the prime numbers ranging from 1 to 62,500.

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February 19, 2013
This is what the world’s biggest prime number looks like. I took the raw numeric data from the new, 17-million-digit prime, broke it into 6-digit chunks, converted that to RGB colors, and made an image.

This is what the world’s biggest prime number looks like.

I took the raw numeric data from the new, 17-million-digit prime, broke it into 6-digit chunks, converted that to RGB colors, and made an image.

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October 10, 2011

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‘11 x’ Series Information graphics by Stephanie Posavec

By looking into the background of long multiplication and handmade calculations, American designer Stephanie Posavec has created a really nice set of four infographic posters depicting patterns that occur when multiplying 11 by various strings of numbers.  

Read the proper explanation and see the remaining two designs on her website here.  

October 5, 2011 • flowingdata.com

Kill Math makes math more meaningful

After a certain point in math education, like some time during high school, the relevance of the concepts to the everyday and the real world seem to fade. However, in many ways, math lets you describe real life better than you can with just words. Designer Bret Victor hopes to make the abstract and conceptual to real and concrete with Kill Math.