Some of the patterns in the numbers are intrinsic (e.g. the… - Paul Graham

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Some of the patterns in the numbers are intrinsic (e.g. the alternation of even and odd) and others are artifacts of our use of base 10 (e.g. multiplying by 10 is trivial), but both enable shortcuts in calculation.

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Paul Graham (born 1964) is an English computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. He is best known for his work on the programming language Lisp, his former startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), cofounding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his essays, and Hacker News.

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