Let f(n) be the number of Google hits for the integer n. Then f(578) is about 100 million, and f(1156), that is, the number of hits for a number twice as big, is about 40 million, a bit less than half as big. Doubling the input continues to halve the output: f(2312) is […]

I searched for each number between 1 and 500 on Google, and recorded the (estimated) number of hits. I’m not aware of anyone having done this before; in any case, I made a chart: Click on the above chart to see a bigger version. You can also look more closely at the first hundred […]