abstract:The Feynman point is a sequence of six 9s that begins at the 762nd decimal place of the decimal representation of . It is named after physicist Richard Feynman, who once stated during a lecture he would like to memorize the digits of until that point, so he could recite them and quip "nine nine nine nine nine nine and so on", suggesting, in a tongue-in-cheek manner, that is rational...
Richard Feynman, the latephysicistandNobellaureate, argued thatthisone-by-one bullet-point style helpedleadNASA to make critical misjudgments that resulted in the Challengerdisaster.
Carl Sagan, Albert Einstein, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Hawking, and Richard Feynman are just a few noted scientists off the top of my head who made it a point to communicate the achievements of science to the public at large.