25 Countries With Something To Be Ashamed Of

Note: Ecuadorians love the clown. Photos: 25. Steve Karg/wikimedia commons, 24. Malene Thyssen, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Malene, 22. Allie_Caulfield via Flickr, 15. BiblioArchives/LibraryArchives via Flickr, 13. Cancilleria del Ecuador via Flickr, 10. Eva Rinaldi via Flickr, 9. MarcusObal/wikimedia commons, 7. Saylor Foundation via wikimedia commons via saylor.org, 6. David Sedlecky/wikimedia commons, 3. Michael Gredenberg/wikimedia commons, 2. Alyeska/wikimedia commons , 1. Jiuguang Wang via Flickr

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25 Extraordinary Math Principles To Challenge Your Brain

Note: the result stems largely from the fact that infinity defies our expectations. Infinity isn’t a number, it’s a concept. Things like addition and subtraction don’t work the same when you involve infinity (kind of how physics doesn’t work the same when you’re standing in the middle of a black hole). More information: it is also worth looking into Ramanujan summation and Grandi’s series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan_summation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandi’s_series Another resource: http://www.bradyharanblog.com/blog/2015/1/11/this-blog-probably-wont-help

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