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Humble pi: when math goes wrong in the real world
Our whole world is built on math, from the code running a website to the equations enabling the design of skyscrapers and bridges. Most of the time this math works quietly behind the scenes . . . until it doesn’t. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences. Math is easy to ignore until a misplaced decimal point upends the stock market, a unit c…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780593084694
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- 336 p. ; ill. ; 21 cm
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- 510 PAR h
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