The following is an excerpt from Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics, by Eugenia Cheng Mathematics can be thought of as many things: a language, a tool, a game. It might ...

(1) For the protocol that adds NFTs to Bitcoin, see Bitcoin Ordinals. (2) A number that identifies the sequence of an item; for example, "record #34 is invalid." Contrast with "cardinal number," which ...

Standard form close standard formA number between 1 and 10 multiplied by a power of ten, eg 193 in standard form is written as 1·93 × 10², 0·193 in standard form is written as 1·93 ×10⁻¹. It is used ...