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Matt parker seems like such a genuinely nice person from his multitude of youtube videos, but i really didn't enjoy the book and abandoned it after about 60 pages or so.

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Some are relative to dates, such as a russian team arriving days late at the 1908 olympics because it was not using the gregorian calendar.

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  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    great, modern and various.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is high deception involved.
  • Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 36.4% of the reviews are reliable.
  • This product had a total of 1,638 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 29 2023.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The auther is very interesting but has used most of this material in youtube videos which makes the book itself less interesting to read


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Well here is an author who claims to be a “standup mathematician”… and who delivers


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This book is no doubt a compendium of some of his material


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Some are relative to dates such as a russian team arriving days late at the 1908 olympics because it was not using the gregorian calendar


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Others involve arithmetical errors confusion between pounds and newtons etc


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Timing mistakes engineering mistakes calculational mistakes statistical mistakes unit conversion mistakes lots and lots of programmingcomputer mistakes and many more


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This book should appeal to a general reading audience curious about how errors can creep into various technological systems and with varying consequences

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