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Mathematical vanity plates (English)
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19 May 2011
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In this charming article Donald E. Knuth looks at automotive license plates and their relationship to mathematics. Some simply state ``Do Math'' or ``Math Sci''. Others display large enough numbers which the author finds remarkable in a mathematical sense. He concludes with ``one of the main unresolved problems'': ``determine the integers of 5 to 8 digits that are most `interesting' in some reasonably mathematical sense''.
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