Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World by Matt Parker

Author:Matt Parker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2020-01-21T00:00:00+00:00

Just remember: a big dot is worth ten small dots. And those other things.

Sometimes when I drink a beer, I like to remember Kushim working away in the beer warehouse with Nisa checking up on them. What they, and others like them, were doing led to our modern writing and mathematics. They had no idea how important they, and beer, ended up being for the development of human civilization. As I said before, living in cities was one of the things that caused humans to rely on math. But which part of city living is recorded in our longest-surviving mathematical documents? Brewing beer. Beer gave us some of humankind’s first calculations. And beer continues to help us make mistakes to this very day.

Both Nisa and Kushim have signed off on a math error in this tablet.

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