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Pomona College
At Pomona College, the number 47 holds an almost mythical status—a tradition born from intellectual curiosity and nurtured by decades of student creativity. What began in 1964 as a playful class project in Professor Donald Bentley’s math course has grown into one of the most enduring and distinctive college inside jokes. Two students set out…
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Buckminster Fuller on the number 47
Synergetics 2 Section 1238.51 “The first prime number beyond the trigonometric limit is 47. The number 47 may be a flying increment to fill allspace, to fill out the eight triangular facets of the non-allspace-filling vector equilibrium to form the allspace-filling first nuclear cube. If 47 as a factor produces a Scheherazade Number with mirrors,…
