Computational Mania

Book excerpt: Chapters: The Harvard Calculating Savant (fiction), Iterating Summation of Digits of Divisors to Reach 15, '60000006' in the Decimal Expansion of Pi^e, Primes Made from Powers of Ten and Fibonacci Numbers, 1729 and Brilliant Numbers as Sums of Two Cubes, On Factorials and Squares, The Famous Frank Cole Factorization and Repunits Squared Factorizations, Ten's Complements of Brilliant Numbers, Fractal Art, The 379009 Upside Down Calculator-Word Prime, Palindrome*2+1 To Get Another Palindrome, A Cautionary Tale On Collaboration, Smarandache Car Prime, The Sopfr(n) Earls Conjecture, A Challenge for Mrs. Thornburgette (fiction) Jason Earls is a guitarist, computational number theorist, and concrete poet. He is the author of the Underground Guitar Handbook, Numbers for Wittgenstein, Red Zen, Math Freak, How to Become a Guitar Player from Hell, and other books.