EH. The Worm Makes It!

August 16, 2008 · answers, infinity, math puzzles, numbers, The Mathcast, Topology and geometry · Permalink

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Dana Richards, editor of Martin Gardner’s Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems explains why the worm makes it, in only about 15,092,688,622,113,788,323,693,563,264,538,101,449,859,497 steps! (Give or take a few.) This incredible fact depends on the mysterious Harmonic Series, discussed a little more in our next post.

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