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Calculated Shard: 84 (from laksa145)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa084.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/weekinreview/what-makes-an-equation-beautiful.html\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/weekinreview/what-makes-an-equation-beautiful.html\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/24\/weekinreview\/what-makes-an-equation-beautiful.html","crawl_time":1754349635,"first_indexed_time":1521408673,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,nytimes!www,\/2004\/10\/24\/weekinreview\/what-makes-an-equation-beautiful.html s443","src_root_hash":"4566504020376537684","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"What Makes an Equation Beautiful - The New York Times","meta_descriptions":["CONSIDER a verbal description of the effect of gravity: drop a ball, and it will fall. That is a true enough fact, but fuzzy in the way that frustrates scientists. How fast does the ball fall? Does it fall at constant rate, or accelerate? Would a heavier ball fall faster? More words, more sentences could provide details, swelling into an unwieldy yet still incomplete paragraph."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"CONSIDER a verbal description of the effect of gravity: drop a ball, and it will fall. That is a true enough fact, but fuzzy in the way that frustrates scientists. How fast does the ball fall? Does it fall at constant rate, or accelerate? Would a heavier ball fall faster? More words, more sentences could provide details, swelling into an unwieldy yet still incomplete paragraph. The wonder of mathematics is that it captures precisely in a few symbols what can only be described clumsily with many words. Those symbols, strung together in meaningful order, make equations -- which in turn constitute the world's most concise and reliable body of knowledge. And so it is that physics offers a very simple equation for calculating the speed of a falling ball. Readers of Physics World magazine recently were asked an interesting question: Which equations are the greatest? Dr. Robert P. Crease, a professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a historian at Brookhaven National Laboratory, posed the question in his Critical Point column and received 120 responses, nominating 50 different equations. Some were nominated for the sheer beauty of their simplicity, some for the breadth of knowledge they capture, others for historical importance. In general, Dr. Crease said, a great equation \"reshapes perception of the universe.\"","attrs_markdown":"[Skip to content](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/24\/weekinreview\/what-makes-an-equation-beautiful.html#site-content)[Skip to site index](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/24\/weekinreview\/what-makes-an-equation-beautiful.html#site-index)\n\nSearch & Section Navigation\n\nSection Navigation\n\nSEARCH\n\n[Week in Review](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/pages\/weekinreview\/index.html)\n\n[Log in](https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?response_type=cookie&client_id=vi&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fsubscription%2Fonboarding-offer%3FcampaignId%3D7JFJX%26EXIT_URI%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2004%252F10%252F24%252Fweekinreview%252Fwhat-makes-an-equation-beautiful.html&asset=masthead)\n\nMonday, August 4, 2025\n\n[Today’s Paper](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/todayspaper)\n\n[Week in Review](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/pages\/weekinreview\/index.html)\\|What Makes an Equation Beautiful\n\nhttps:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/24\/weekinreview\/what-makes-an-equation-beautiful.html\n\n- Share full article\n\nAdvertisement\n\n[SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/24\/weekinreview\/what-makes-an-equation-beautiful.html#after-top)\n\nSupported by\n\n[SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/24\/weekinreview\/what-makes-an-equation-beautiful.html#after-sponsor)\n\nThe Best of Physics\n\n# What Makes an Equation Beautiful\n- Share full article\n\nBy [Kenneth Chang](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/kenneth-chang)\n\n- Oct. 24, 2004\n\nCONSIDER a verbal description of the effect of gravity: drop a ball, and it will fall.\n\nThat is a true enough fact, but fuzzy in the way that frustrates scientists. How fast does the ball fall? Does it fall at constant rate, or accelerate? Would a heavier ball fall faster? More words, more sentences could provide details, swelling into an unwieldy yet still incomplete paragraph.\n\nThe wonder of mathematics is that it captures precisely in a few symbols what can only be described clumsily with many words. Those symbols, strung together in meaningful order, make equations -- which in turn constitute the world's most concise and reliable body of knowledge. And so it is that physics offers a very simple equation for calculating the speed of a falling ball.\n\nReaders of Physics World magazine recently were asked an interesting question: Which equations are the greatest?\n\nDr. Robert P. Crease, a professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a historian at Brookhaven National Laboratory, posed the question in his Critical Point column and received 120 responses, nominating 50 different equations. Some were nominated for the sheer beauty of their simplicity, some for the breadth of knowledge they capture, others for historical importance. In general, Dr. Crease said, a great equation \"reshapes perception of the universe.\"\n\nThe mathematical equation providing the speed of a falling ball is just four symbols long: v = gt.\n\nWith it, you can calculate the ball's speed 2.5 seconds after release. (That's g, the acceleration of gravity, which is 32 feet per second squared, multiplied by 2.5 seconds, giving an answer of 80 feet per second.)\n\nThis equation, a mainstay of high school physics, was not among those nominated as the greatest of all time, which is not surprising, because its use is limited.\n\nThe pull of gravity varies with distance from the Earth's surface, and the equation also suggests that an object's speed could go on increasing toward infinity, past the known limit of the speed of light.\n\nThe top vote-getters in the magazine poll were Maxwell's equations -- a set of four that describe the interplay between electric and magnetic fields -- and Euler's equation, a purely mathematical construct that finds wide use in theoretical physics.\n\n\"It combines rational and irrational numbers to get zero,\" Dr. Crease said. \"It's bizarre.\"\n\nAmong the other nominees were the all-familiar E=mc2 from Einstein, which equates energy and matter; the Pythagorean theorem; and Isaac Newton's F=ma.\n\n## Editors’ Picks\n[![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/07\/22\/epic-universe-46832-cover\/epic-universe-46832-cover-thumbLarge.jpg)Riding Your Way Through Epic Universe](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/30\/travel\/universal-epic-universe-orlando-rides.html)\n\n[![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/07\/28\/books\/review\/28TBR-KidsBooks-PreSchool\/28TBR-KidsBooks-PreSchool-thumbLarge-v2.jpg)Books for Kids Starting Preschool](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/04\/books\/preschool-books.html)\n\n[![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/08\/04\/multimedia\/04cul-kingofthehill-review-cjfq\/04cul-kingofthehill-review-cjfq-thumbLarge.jpg)‘King of the Hill’ Review: Still a Man’s World, but a Different One](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/04\/arts\/television\/king-of-the-hill-review-still-a-mans-world-but-a-different-one.html)\n\nAdvertisement\n\n[SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/24\/weekinreview\/what-makes-an-equation-beautiful.html#after-pp_edpick)\n\nProminent scientists have their own favorites. Dr. Brian Greene, a theorist at Columbia University and author of \"The Elegant Universe,\" cites Einstein's general relativity equations, which describe how matter warps the fabric of space, and the Schrödinger equation, the fundamental equation of quantum mechanics.\n\n\"With a mere handful of symbols, those equations describe almost all phenomena in the universe,\" he said. \"It is so amazing how so much of the universe is encapsulated in a few symbols.\"\n\nDr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium, said he was disappointed that E=mc2 did not receive more votes. \"I think the general physics community, they're a little bored with the equation,\" he said. \"It's risen to the level of icon that people no longer pay attention to.\"\n\nBut Dr. Tyson said that the equation was a fundamental underpinning not only of the universe, but also of the first five chapters of his book \"Origins.\"\n\n\"It's simple, yet profound,\" he said. \"I'd be less impressed if it were a big complicated equation.\"\n\nA half-dozen of Dr. Crease's respondents, including Richard Harrison of Calgary, Alberta, chose one of the simplest possible equations.\n\nMr. Harrison wrote: \"'1 + 1 = 2' is the fairy tale of mathematics, the first equation I taught my son, the first expression of the miraculous power of the mind to change the real world. I remember my son holding up the index finger, the 'one finger,' of each hand as he learned the expression, and the moment of wonder, perhaps his first of true philosophical wonder, when he saw that the two fingers, separated by his whole body, could be joined in a single concept in his mind.\"\n\nA version of this article appears in print on Oct. 24, 2004, Section 4, Page 12 of the National edition with the headline: Ideas & Trends; What Makes an Equation Beautiful. 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Meta Description	CONSIDER a verbal description of the effect of gravity: drop a ball, and it will fall. That is a true enough fact, but fuzzy in the way that frustrates scientists. How fast does the ball fall? Does it fall at constant rate, or accelerate? Would a heavier ball fall faster? More words, more sentences could provide details, swelling into an unwieldy yet still incomplete paragraph.
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Boilerpipe Text	CONSIDER a verbal description of the effect of gravity: drop a ball, and it will fall. That is a true enough fact, but fuzzy in the way that frustrates scientists. How fast does the ball fall? Does it fall at constant rate, or accelerate? Would a heavier ball fall faster? More words, more sentences could provide details, swelling into an unwieldy yet still incomplete paragraph. The wonder of mathematics is that it captures precisely in a few symbols what can only be described clumsily with many words. Those symbols, strung together in meaningful order, make equations -- which in turn constitute the world's most concise and reliable body of knowledge. And so it is that physics offers a very simple equation for calculating the speed of a falling ball. Readers of Physics World magazine recently were asked an interesting question: Which equations are the greatest? Dr. Robert P. Crease, a professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a historian at Brookhaven National Laboratory, posed the question in his Critical Point column and received 120 responses, nominating 50 different equations. Some were nominated for the sheer beauty of their simplicity, some for the breadth of knowledge they capture, others for historical importance. In general, Dr. Crease said, a great equation "reshapes perception of the universe."
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That is a true enough fact, but fuzzy in the way that frustrates scientists. How fast does the ball fall? Does it fall at constant rate, or accelerate? Would a heavier ball fall faster? More words, more sentences could provide details, swelling into an unwieldy yet still incomplete paragraph. The wonder of mathematics is that it captures precisely in a few symbols what can only be described clumsily with many words. Those symbols, strung together in meaningful order, make equations -- which in turn constitute the world's most concise and reliable body of knowledge. And so it is that physics offers a very simple equation for calculating the speed of a falling ball. Readers of Physics World magazine recently were asked an interesting question: Which equations are the greatest? Dr. Robert P. Crease, a professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a historian at Brookhaven National Laboratory, posed the question in his Critical Point column and received 120 responses, nominating 50 different equations. Some were nominated for the sheer beauty of their simplicity, some for the breadth of knowledge they capture, others for historical importance. In general, Dr. Crease said, a great equation "reshapes perception of the universe." The mathematical equation providing the speed of a falling ball is just four symbols long: v = gt. With it, you can calculate the ball's speed 2.5 seconds after release. (That's g, the acceleration of gravity, which is 32 feet per second squared, multiplied by 2.5 seconds, giving an answer of 80 feet per second.) This equation, a mainstay of high school physics, was not among those nominated as the greatest of all time, which is not surprising, because its use is limited. The pull of gravity varies with distance from the Earth's surface, and the equation also suggests that an object's speed could go on increasing toward infinity, past the known limit of the speed of light. The top vote-getters in the magazine poll were Maxwell's equations -- a set of four that describe the interplay between electric and magnetic fields -- and Euler's equation, a purely mathematical construct that finds wide use in theoretical physics. "It combines rational and irrational numbers to get zero," Dr. Crease said. "It's bizarre." 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A half-dozen of Dr. Crease's respondents, including Richard Harrison of Calgary, Alberta, chose one of the simplest possible equations. Mr. Harrison wrote: "'1 + 1 = 2' is the fairy tale of mathematics, the first equation I taught my son, the first expression of the miraculous power of the mind to change the real world. I remember my son holding up the index finger, the 'one finger,' of each hand as he learned the expression, and the moment of wonder, perhaps his first of true philosophical wonder, when he saw that the two fingers, separated by his whole body, could be joined in a single concept in his mind." A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 24, 2004, Section 4, Page 12 of the National edition with the headline: Ideas & Trends; What Makes an Equation Beautiful. 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