Summer of Math Exposition

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Hacking Numbers

This essay explores the correspondence between configuration spaces, algebraic data types, and positional number systems, covering a lot of ground while assuming very little prior knowledge in any one area. Then we explore the geometry undergirding the various kinds of positional number systems, a cone of continuous moduli, and demonstrate how a deeper understanding of this space may be translated across our correspondence.