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How Long Is a Piece of String?: More Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life

How Long Is a Piece of String?: More Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life

Wyndham, Jeremy
Eastaway, Rob

Hardcover

General MathematicsGeneral SciencePuzzles

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ISBN10: 1911622269
ISBN13: 9781911622260
Publisher: Portico
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.40 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

A fascinating book, from a leading maths educator and demystifier, that shows how maths is relevant to our everyday lives.

Have you ever wondered how the meter in a taxi works? Or why a lift takes so long to respond to your call? Is there a mathematical secret to making a hit single? And how long is a piece of string? In this fascinating book you will find the answers to these and many other intriguing questions of everyday life. Discover the astonishing '37% rule' for blind dates, how to avoid the gentleman's urinal, and some extraordinary scams that people have devised to get rich quick. Here you will also find the origins of the seven-day week and the seven-note scale, an explanation of why underdogs sometimes win, some clever techniques for detecting fraud, and the reason why epidemics sweep across a nation and disappear just as quickly.

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