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Humble pi : when math goes wrong in the real world / Matt Parker.
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Title:Humble pi : when math goes wrong in the real world / Matt Parker.
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Variant Title:Humble pie
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Author/Creator:Parker, Matt (Mathematician), author.
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Published/Created:New York : Riverhead Books, 2021.
©2019
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Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: QA93 .P37275 2021
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Mathematics--Popular works.
Errors.
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Edition:Riverhead trade paperback edition
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Description:314 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Summary:"This tour of real-world mathematical disasters reveals the importance of math in everyday life. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences. Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and an Olympic team, Matt Parker uncovers the ways math trips us up."-- Provided by publisher
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Notes:Page numbers are in reverse order.
Originally published in Great Britain as: Humble pi : a comedy of maths errors by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House Uk, 2019--Title page verso.
Includes index.
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ISBN:9780593084694
0593084691
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Contents:Losing track of time
Engineering mistakes
Little data
Out of shape
You can't count on it
Does not compute
Probably wrong
Put your money where your mistakes are
A roundabout way
Too small to notice
Units, conventions, and why can't we all just get along?
Stats the way I like it
Titloay Rodanm
Does not compute
So, what have we learned from our mistakes?