Really big numbers / Richard Evan Scwartz.

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The book begins with small, easily observable numbers before building up to truly gigantic ones, like a nonillion, a tredecillion, a googol, and even ones too huge for names! Any person, regardless of age, can benefit from reading this book. Readers will find themselves returning to its pages for a...

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Main Author: Schwartz, Richard Evan (Author)
Language:English
Published: Providence, Rhode Island : AMS, American Mathematical Society, [2014]
Subjects:
Number concept > Juvenile literature.
Numbers, Real > Juvenile literature.
Number concept.
Numbers, Real.
Juvenile works.
Genre:
Juvenile literature.
Juvenile works.
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 19 cm
Format: Book

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