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National Geographic`s July 2007 edition: Swarm Theory

A single ant or bee isn’t smart, but their colonies are. The study of swarm intelligence is providing insights that can help humans manage complex systems.

In 1881 a result was published, based on the observation that the first pages of logarithm books, used at that time to perform calculations, were much more worn than the other pages. The conclusion was that computations of numbers that started with 1 were performed more often than others: if d denotes the first digit of a number the probability of its appearance is equal to log(d + 1).
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There is an interesting observation or conjecture to be made from the Mataphysics Map in the post what can we know?, concerning the nature of infinity.
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