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Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
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David Rubenstein
Apr 05, 2021 rated it it was amazing
This is a marvelous book about all the ways that math errors can infiltrate our day-to-day living. Some of the math errors are just fun (as in older arcade games), while others have life-or-death consequences (like airplanes running out of fuel mid-flight).

Some of the math errors are simply a confusion about units; feet/meters, pounds/kilograms, and so on. One such error was when a jet liner was loaded up with fuel in pounds, instead of kilograms. Luckily, there was a mid-flight landing and refu
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Jim
Aug 10, 2022 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
A GR friend of mine wrote in his review that this is cotton candy for the mind. I'd give it higher marks, but I understand his point. This book is fun, well narrated, & probably informative to those without much experience with math, the history of engineering disasters, & computer programming. I'm not particularly well versed in these subjects, but I recognized many (most) immediately. Still, if you're not familiar with any of that, this would be eye-opening. It's probably a good book for the u ...more
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