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Mathematician Richard Elwes discusses humanity's long-time fascination with ginormous numbers—and what this obsession reveals ...

Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by … not counting. That’s the ...