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Sunday, 29 January 2012 Thursday, 26 January 2012 MATHEMATICS. Where do we use mathematics in our daily life? Why do we actually have to learn maths? Do you have any ideas of why do we need to learn mathematics? There are lots of uses of mathematics actually... Let us watch the video provided below. It may explain t...
Product Description Voronoi mesh scherk minimal surface. In mathematics, a Scherk surface (named after Heinrich Scherk) is an example of a minimal surface. Inmathematics, aminimal surfaceis a surface that locally minimizes its area. Physical models of area-minimizing minimal surfaces can be made by dipping a wire fra...
A great Saturday food for the mind: magic squares. They have been quite famous as a part of the "recreational mathematics". So today I thought I will talk about some famous magic squares: the one from Albrecht Durer's painting and the one on the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona. If you want to find out more about ma...
6 great mathematicians essay Mathematician - Wikipedia Top 10 Greatest Mathematicians - Listverse 6 great mathematicians essay Eight Great Mathematician. Mathematicians Essay contributed several equations to calculus and geometry, ten of which are called the Einstein. A comprihensive directory of world's famous mat...
Mathematics relies on both logic and creativity, and it is pursued both for a variety of practical purposes and for its intrinsic interest. For some people, and not only professional mathematicians, the essence of mathematics lies in its beauty and its intellectual challenge. For others, including many scientists and e...
An eminent academic, who as a teenager represented his country in the International Mathematical Olympiad, has joined the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Lincoln, UK. Dr Evgeny Khukhro, who sits on various editorial boards and has published more than 100 research papers in peer-reviewed journals...
Friday, August 11, 2006 Second Edition - Non Euclidian Math This also allows for the intensity of numbers, instead of merely their size. It could very well be "1" instead of 1. It is the *charge* of a number. An enormous 1, possibly made of a million 1's all identical, built up with incredible chi, could entirely kno...
The Hindus have been fascinated by sequences and series from the beginning of their civilizational memory recorded in the Veda. This continues down to the medieval mathematician Nārāyaṇa paṇḍita, who discovered a general formula (sāmāsika paṅkti) that can be to obtain the 'Meru-średhī' (known in the west as Fibonacci's...
September 07, 2005 Tetris and mathematical cancellation As far as I know, few have been able to find a way of talking about Tetris in relation to the world, other than that it's very fun and addictive and abstract, oh and there are blocks. Which fall. Consider, though, the fact that blocks disappear when they're per...
Euler, the Beethoven of Mathematics In the educational studies of every scientist, there are a few individual names that seem to emerge from course to course. But above those of Newton, Galileo, or Einstein, there is one name that probably surpasses them all as the first to appear—once children master the four basic a...
When does the woman learn the best number? How does the cut stop reduce the degree? The complex form finalizes the night.
quarta-feira, abril 07, 2004 Before starting our long working week, let's relax with this story of a bicycle with square wheels. No, it's not a joke. And it even rides smoothly. But there is a trick: the road must have a specific shape. The Math Trek section of Science News Online tells us more about this strange bicy...
India The Fibonacci numbers first appeared, under the name mātrāmeru (mountain of cadence), in the work of the Sanskrit grammarian Pingala (Chandah-shāstra, the Art of Prosody, 450 or 200 BC). Prosody was important in ancient Indian ritual because of an emphasis on the purity of utterance. The Indian mathematician Vira...
Main menu Post navigation Research into a general magnitude system New research has been done in the theory that number, space and time might be part of a generalized magnitude system and that deficits in that system could explain Developmental Dyscalculia. It is quite a good read but their main conclusion is: Defi...
Browse related Subjects ... Read More chapter on the Law of Large Numbers which offers useful tips on backing the right horses.' Daily TelegraphIn this irreverent guide to classroom horrors such as algebra, percentages and probability, maths teacher Lawrence Potter sheds light on the dark mysteries that have haunted yo...
The Cosmic Octave is a gem of a handbook for anyone interested in understanding how music is truly the language of the cosmos and of the natural world. Cousto, a brilliant german mathematician, writes succinctly and in terms that are easy to grasp even for non-scientists. The Cosmic Dead are a jam rock collective from...
Sean Bone Gödel Kurt Gödel, 1906 - 1978, was an Austrian-American mathematician, logician and philosopher, who used logic and set theory to investigate the foundations of mathematics. A Term a Day: Three Objects [ Resources : Games and Fun] A card trick that is simple to perform, but baffling for the victims. A ...
23 November 2016 John Wallis Not being a mathematician, I was unaware of this gentleman before, but he has been described as the most important British contributor to the discipline before Sir Isaac Newton. Born 400 years ago today, he is known for introducing the infinity symbol still in use today. As this source sa...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 Egyptian Mathematics Activities With adequate data compilation and proper calculations, you will please consider the egyptian mathematics activities to the egyptian mathematics activities of the egyptian mathematics activities a porch or shed, using mathematics in their work. Sophisticate...
"Mathematics is like draughts [checkers] in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state." –Plato It is estimated that Mathematics started with the concept of counting around 50,000 B.C.E.. Since then Mathematics has grown into so much more, follow this link for an interestin...
Symmetry is vital to understanding and predicting how our universe works. The relationship between symmetry and the mechanics of the universe is fundamental to physics. From Noether's theorem to the new and exciting wArtist, designer, inventor, and Stanford professor John Edmark creates sculptures that are driven by pr...
"Breaking News on God and Other Higher Beings in this World and the World to Come" (Edited by Cliff Pickover, author of "The Math Book." Thursday, February 02, 2006 Mathematics and God Perhaps the most unusual argument for evidence of God has come from mathematics. Some have suggested that the compact formula ei*pi...
dimensionless number Pi is an example of a dimensionless number. A dimensionless number doesn't imply any measurement units. Pi is just 3.14, not 3.14 miles nor pounds nor cents. In contrast, c, the speed of light, must be stated in terms of miles per second or meters per second or other equivalent measurement units. ...
Wednesday, 8 August 2012 How to Inspire a Little Mathematician. As a mathematician, one thing that really gets my goat is people's attitude to Maths: it's difficult, it's boring, it's just numbers and times tables, I never could do maths, I was rubbish at maths at school. You know the thing. Would people be so eager ...
26 Growing pineapples, language and culture study, air conditioning, poetry, a vineyard and a dog are but a few. One of my favorites is math and numbers. I like to memorize the populations of aLL the nearby cities and I know a few license tags. This came in handy yesterday when I saw my best friend's car behind me i...
Who Introduced the Leap Year? Julius Ceasar, believe it or not. The Roman calendar had got seriously out of date with the solar calendar, even though Roman officials were supposed to introduce an extra month every so often. So Caesar consulted his top astronomers who worked out that the solar year—the time it takes for...
Pascal's triangle - entries are coefficients of a binomial expansion Probability and Patterns with Pascal.this would be cool for an upcoming math module. The students could fill in the rest of Pascal's Triangle and then write a report about the history and patterns found.
Scarcity and Abundance During a recent discussion with Prof. Gangal, my PhD advisor, I noticed an irony of mathematical "counter-examples": On the one hand, there are usually many more pathological cases than regular cases, but on the other hand they are difficult to construct. Take rational numbers versus irrational...
American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, advocacy and other programs. The Society w...
Thursday, January 28, 2010 Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman's proof of the famous Poincare conjecture in 2002-03 and the subsequent confirmation in 2006 of his efforts drew an enormous amount of interest - and rightly so considering that it has been an entire century since Henri Poincare first made his famous co...
No, it's not possible. An "Euler circuit" is possible only if every bank and island is served by an even number of bridgeheads. Otherwise you'll eventually get stranded or find yourself unable to return home. You can prove this to yourself — draw a map as complex as you like and try it out. Nashville's Centennial Par...
Demystifying the Natural Logarithm (ln) Given how the natural log is described in math books, there's little "natural" about it: it's defined as the inverse of e^x, a strange enough exponent already. But there's a fresh, intuitive explanation: The natural log gives you the time needed to reach a certain level of grow...
Happy Pi Day: How to Save Money Using Pi Today, 3/14 is Pi Day. Pi, aka π, is the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet and the symbolic representation of a circle's circumference to its diameter. In celebration of Pi Day, the Grand Traverse Pie Company is serving free pie with any purchase, and if you're lucky — and a bi...
A mathematical symbol created by a Welshman almost 500 years ago has been acclaimed as the best design in the history of communication. James Peto, curator of the Design Museum in London, believes that Robert Recorde's simple equals sign - familiar to every school pupil but revolutionary at the time - is better than co...
Brahmagupta [597–668 AD] was an Indian mathematician and astronomer who wrote many important works on mathematics and astronomy. His best known work is the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta (Correctly Established Doctrine of Brahma), written in 628 in Bhinmal. Its 25 chapters contain several unprecedented mathematical results. Br...
books.google.com - From... Mathematician Reads the Newspaper A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper From and the sports pages - and how often they mislead us. By understanding simple concepts such as probability, chaos theory and game theory, you'll be able to see through faulty statistics, stock market forecasters and ...
John Dewey Was Wrong A beautiful example of the interplay between science (physics) and mathematics is the discovery of the general theory of relativity. Einstein discovered the special theory of relativity (STR) in 1905, in which space and time are intermingled. Three years later, Hermann Minkowski, a mathematician, ...
Information for You are here What is Number Theory? Unsurprisingly, number theorists are interested in the properties of numbers! In particular, the relations between the additive and multiplicative structures of integers are so fascinating that they make number theory a vast and fertile field of mathematical resear...
A silly proof of the fact that the golden ratio is irrational by identifying it as the cosine of a rational angle Since the golden ratio has popped up twice now more or less by accident I would like to add my own silly proof of the fact that the golden ratio is irrational. Okay, it's not my proof so much as it is a co...
3600: Proof in the Numbers "The number 3600 was written in Sumerian as a large circle. The epithet for the planet also meant 'a perfect circle' or 'a completed cycle'. It also meant the number 3600." - Zecharia Sitchin, The 12th Planet "The ancient Sumerian's got their information from the Annunaki, whose home planet...
Pages January 22, 2009 Why Two Wrongs Make a Right Rapke (2008) explores the reasons why $(-1)(-1)=1$ and what knowledge must be known to explain it. I liked how she divided her findings into two sections: Pseduoreasoning, and formal explanations. In order to rigorously prove $(-1)(-1)=1$, background information on ...
Reflections about the maths daily in the world around us. The nummolt - mathcats materials, the mathematics behind them and related to them. Math education and apps. Primes as the basic building blocks of numbers There: "Chandra Mukerji highlights the connections between the seemingly disparate activities of engineeri...
How Can Our Lives Be Better and Brighter, To Stay Sane with Vedic Maths The ancient mathematics style of Vedic maths was rediscovered in the early 1900's by Sri Bharati Krsna. It is a maths style often regarded as 'Indian Maths' but that is recognized in the mathematics and scientific community as structured system ma...
​The DaVinci's "The Vitruvian Man" illustrated the Golden Ratio of the human body. ​ ​For more information, see this page: ​STUDENTS: OPTIONAL sample of the Golden Ratio or Fibonacci Sequence. ​If you post, you will receive extra credit for it. It is not required, but READ and UNDERSTAND these concepts. (This ...
Fun with Numbers - Jokes A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.- J. E. Littlewood. Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives. Teacher: If you had $750 in one pocket and $600 in the other pocket, what would ...
The part played by L. Euler in the development of number theory is well known: he laid the foundations of the theory of residues of powers, discovered the law of quadratic reciprocity, invented analytic methods to investigate number-theoretical questions, and so on. Far less known are his achievements in the realm of D...
Math teacher seeking patterns. A Billion Heartbeats As animals get bigger, from tiny shrew to huge blue whale, pulse rates slow down and life spans stretch out longer, conspiring so that the number of heartbeats during an average stay on Earth tends to be roughly the same, around a billion. And … … the surface area...
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Additional Math Pages & Resources Friday, June 3, 2011 Creative Units of Measure, Part IV Today we'll finish up this week's blog series by recognizing a set of creative units known as the FFF system. The FFF designation means Furlongs, Firkins and Fortnights (distance, weight, time). A furlong is 201 meters or 220 ...
Maths When: Monday November 13, 20 (2 sessions), 2:00 – 4:00 Where: ArtsCape, 45 Jackson StreetPresenter: Barry Gardner Not Just Numbers (And Not Just Adding and Multiplying) There are many operations beyond just addition and multiplication — some of them interesting. Moreover, there are operations for other things...
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A math blog by Dan Ma Main menu Post navigation This post discusses the clay tablet that is known as Plimpton 322. This tablet gives us a glimpse of the powerful mathematics practiced in ancient Babylonia almost 4000 years ago. We aim to give a sense of why Plimpton 322 is fascinating. The math in the tablet informs...
Self-portrait - 17.5 x 27.5 cm - The closest I have to the Golden Ratio I've suspected this for some time, and I finally got an article that shows this, albeit in a more practical way. The Golden Ratio is kind of a crap number when it comes to nature, art, and design. Now, the author, John Brownlee, suggests the Golde...
How many numbers are there? I'm not trying to trick you with this question, but I've gotten two different answers to what should be a straightforward query. Some people will say there are 10 numbers. They go as follows: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Other people will say that there is an infinite amount of numbers, b...
… Because one thought leads to another … Number Tricks or Number Patterns October 18, 2013 I love number patterns. There is a beauty in the way our number system works and the patterns that materialize. Sometimes the opportunity presents itself to not only investigate a number pattern but to also have some fun. Whe...
The importance of two turns out to be very fundamental- it is precisely because two is one more than one. Symbolically, 2 = 1 + 1. Say we have a "dimension". For now, we will restrict the geometric properties of this dimension to being a straight line. We are on an arbitrary point along this one dimension, and we can ...
Archives The Venn Diagram The Venn Diagram: When Jon Venn first envisioned his new diagram's future, he surely couldn't have expected it to be popular more than a century after he created it. However, it has stood the test of time and has remained a popular diagram for showing correlations between different aspect of...
Leopold Kronecker's Werke: 5 Part Set(Hardback) Synopsis Leopold Kronecker (1823-1891) made contributions to several branches of mathematics. He is known for his statement 'Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk' ('Integers were made by God, everything else is the work of man'), w...
How should we respond to this student? a) Agree with him b) Explain the importance of mathematics to his future careers and/or interests (communications and anthropology/basketball...) c) Explain the importance of mathematics to the development of critical thinking, problem solving and analytic skills d) More than one ...
Representing integers as a sum of two squares Almost 400 years ago, Pierre de Fermat stated that every odd prime of the form `4k+1` can be expressed as the sum of two squares: `p = x^2 + y^2` with integers `x` and `y`, if and only if `p ≡ 1 mod 4` Later on, around the year 1747, Leonhard Euler was ab... Representing i...
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Interesting things about numbers and your brain I know this won't be popular... hum... this thread will die young. Most of us, the public of this forum, with the exception of Chinese and Japanese, and a few other nationals, uses position numbering system. We've got only ten digits (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) becaus...
15, 2013 "I was always bad at math" is an excuse I have heard many of my colleagues complain about. I'm reluctant to join their complaints. I've been living in Sweden for four years now and still don't speak Swedish. If somebody asks me, I'll say I was always bad with languages. So who am I to judge people for not wan...
. Is math ability genetic? Sure, to some degree. Terence Tao, UCLA's famous virtuoso mathematician, publishes dozens of papers in top journals every year, and is sought out by researchers around the world to help with the hardest parts of their theories. Essentially none of us could ever be as good at math as Terence ...
The best we can all do for our kids as parents, mentors and world citizens, is to model [Gracious Professionalism] always: not to win an award, but because it is the right thing to do. - chapman1 [more] My chemistry class started a discussion a few days ago on math in careers. It would seem that most of the class (the...
Enlightening Symbols' shows how math's language arose From numerals to infinity, symbols have advanced mathematical thinking As the semanticist S.I. Hayakawa stressed in his classic book Language in Thought and Action, words are not the things they represent. Words are symbols. It's the manipulation of those symbols ...
Monday, December 8, 2014 Down memory lane: Approximate counting At work we do a lot of counting. For some counts we need an accurate result, while for others we can get by with an approximate count. For these approximate counts, as long as the result is within the same order of magnitude of the true count, we're ok. ...
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Bernhard Riemann would make any list of the greatest mathematicians ever. In 1859, he proposed a formula to count prime numbers that has defied all attempts to prove it true. This new book tackles the Riemann hypothesis. Partly a biography of Riemann, Derbyshire's work presents more technical details about the hypothes...
Pi Day The mathematical constant π = 3.1415…. Today is called "Pi Day" (3/14/15), and will occur only once every 100 years. And today I captured the Pi second 🙂 the date and the time exactly corresponding to the first 10 digits of Pi (π): 3.141592653. Lesson: Our time is brief and "…every passing minute is another c...
Understanding, not just procedures From this HuffPost article, written by a mathematician talking about the shift from procedural math knowledge (doing problems) to what we really need to know about math these days: The shift began with the introduction of the electronic calculator in the 1960s, which rendered obsole...
Let's get creative with cubes! Use three colors to decorate the faces of 27 small cubes, then put them together to form a 3x3x3 cube. But wait, there's a catch: can you color the little cubes so that the large cube looks like it's all one color? Can you change it to a different color? How about the third color? Join ma...
1 Optim' Planet Because population is expanding, with increasing levels of life and needs, the planet resources are under pressure. How can one match resources and needs, without wasting? Mathematical optimization brings concepts and methods to come to grip with such compromises. We invite you to watch the 3 minutes i...
Starting from 1 (and assuming a prior zero), iteratively generating the sum of the result with the previous number converges on a ratio of "phi" between successive numbers (each number in the series is equal to the sum of the previous two numbers).This iteration of sums is known as the Fibonacci Series. 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,...
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General Fiction: The 259 Conjecture by Brian Robinson ASIN: B01N7SU7FA Be The First To Review The General Fiction: The 259 Conjecture Kindle Edition...Free With Kindle Unlimited. Sam Fisher was a brilliant mathematician and displayed many of the attributes a genius might. But his view of mathematics was unorthodox....
Donkey work is making maths a beast of burden Share this Conrad Wolfram (pictured) is right to argue that we need to rethink our priorities for maths education ("Computers do it better", 30 March). It is bizarre, for example, that we still teach pupils to use tables of probabilities three decades after the calculator...
Description Excerpt from Histoire des Mathematiques Depuis Leurs Origines Jusqu'au Commencement du Dix-Neuvieme Siecle L'ecrivain qui est bien penetre de ces sentiments prendra la plume, non point pour flatter certains contemporains, passants ephemeres, toujours en adoration devant leur propre merite, mais pour elever...
William J. Cook On his book In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman: Mathematics at the Limits of Computation Cover Interview of February 13, 2012 In a nutshell You wake up in the morning and find that you need to visit a number of cities or towns before returning in the evening. What is the shortest possible route to...
As them being numbers would imply the apparently paradoxical concept that infinite complexity can exist in a finite volume of space. Those words, in that order, make precisely no sense at all. They're not even wrong. I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say, but consider this: Almost all real numbers are irrati...
Hidden Mathematics of Sport takes a vel and intriguing look at sport, by exploring the mathematics behind the action. Discover the best tactics for taking a penalty, the pros and cons of being a consistent golfer, the surprising link between boxing and figure skating, the unusual location of England's earliest 'footbal...
The term abstract algebra now refers to the study of all algebraic structures, as distinct from the elementary algebra ordinarily taught to children, which teaches the correct rules for manipulating formulas and algebraic expressions involving numbers">real and complex numbers, and unknowns. Elementary algebra can be t...
Background needed to understand number theory research papers. Hi, I am a computer science student that has found an interest in mathematics. I am currently exploring number theory, among other fields such as abstract algebra, and have gathered an interest in it after glancing at HAKMEM and Hacker's Delight, as well a...
Most Magical Square In 2006, three pupils from a Dutch secondary school created the "most magical magic square in 5,000 years", according to maths experts from Radboud University in Nijmegen, in the Netherlands. Jess Hoekstra and Willem Schilte, both 17, and Petra Alkema, 15, created the massive 12 x 12 magic square ...
Numeracy and Education: The Issue of Innumeracy in America Illiteracy in the world today is viewed as public issue number one by citizens, governments, and whole nations. In America, any suggestion that the literacy rate among adults is declining is met with consternation and an abundance of possible solutions are imm...
Tuesday, August 1, 2017 Birthday: "We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves." John Venn (1834-1923) Mathematician, author A son of the vicarage, John Venn was a Yorkshireman wh...
My favorite Mel Stover creation has to be what he dubbed the Beadless Abacus. As you can see below, it's an array of hexagonal cells, each containing a simple arithmetic problem. If you were challenged to sum up the answers to, say, any 3 cells in a straight line, could you do it? How about summing a line of 4 cells, o...
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You certainly know the game little kids play where they have a cube, a sphere and a pyramid, and they have to put them through holes of the corresponding shape. In the beginning, this might be difficult, but it becomes quite easy and dull after some time. Now, it is simple for most people, but how difficult is the same...
an academic journal for all kinds of mind Ellen Wiencek MATH/ECON KNOWLEDGE As a self-proclaimed left brainer who wishes she were artsy, I've enjoyed working on the Stone with some creative people to put together a publication that's accessible for brains of all inclinations. I'm not one to sit down and write a hear...
Dedekind uses the prime notation for successor, and this is the same as counting on by one. One can do order the same way as Dedekind does in his book. This in effect is order from counting on. This also shows that addition is linked to order and counting on by one. It is easy to think that addition is somehow a prim...
Pages Labels Monday, 16 September 2013 Mathematical Fallacies by Sampad Sengupta A fallacy is a mistaken belief, one based on unsound argument. It may be an ideathat a lot of people thinkis truebut is in fact false. Now, in mathematics, a proof is an argument, a deductive argument for a mathematical statement. It ...
Saturday, April 20, 2013 Help In Mathematics From it's humble origins of tied knots, mathematics has been extended into science and mathematics, adopting knowledge in mathematics education or knowledge-based subjects, for example, history. However, does this approach suits learning at a few other variations of the he...
Poster Of Lindemann Ferdinand von Lindemann. lived from 1852 to 1939. Lindemann was thefirst to prove that Pi is transcendental, ie Pi is not the root Encyclopædia Britannica lindemann, (Carl Louis) ferdinand von German mathematician who is mainly rememberedfor having proved that the number is transcendental—ie, it doe...
In the Beginning, There was 1: Lonely, not the Only 1. When 1 Met another, What an Obvious Sum, that 1 + 1 Is not 2, but 1. In due Time, in new Math, it Came to Be that 1 + 1 would = 3. Equations Die hard When change Is a Constant, Shifts Occur over Time, happen Instant by Instant. Formulae Need to Grow, to Accommodate...
I am looking for a mathematician who can review a deterministic model - a relatively simple one - then express it in a formula, do a valid mathematical proof, and tell us why it works for calculating what it calculates.
Friday, May 7, 2010 Transcendental numbers especially e and pi play an important role with respect to prime number behaviour. For example the simplest version of the prime number theorem, providing a general means of calculating the frequency of primes uses the natural log of n (which is based on e). Also the sum of...
Digital Deception You remove a key and ring from your pocket and explain that your audience will create a three-digit number. You ask several people to name a single-digit number and these are put together to create a random three-digit number. Amazingly, the number named exactly matches the number digitally printed ...