Cicadas: The Beautiful Bugs Using Prime Numbers to Stay Alive

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It was the weekend, and my wife had taken the kids to go shopping. Wanting to rest a little, I stayed home, made myself some coffee with a side of dried mangos, and started watching a documentary I had come up on about cicadas. When I finished the documentary, I was amazed by how these bugs use math to stay alive and saddened about how unfairly I treated these innocent bugs.

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Ali

Math Teacher. Content Curator. Soccer player. Maradona fan. Mostly write about the lectures I love to learn better. alikayaspor@gmail.com