Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
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To get everything back into alignment in the first place, the year 46BCE had a possible-world-record 445 days.
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To check how likely it is to land on its edge, I sat down and spent three days flipping one. After ten thousand flips it had landed on its edge fourteen times.
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When it comes to measuring a leader’s body parts, trillionths of a metre is never the most convenient case. Except maybe for Trump.