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by Jamie Buchan (Author), Tom Lawrence (Narrator)
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  • Listening Length: 3 hours and 29 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Unabridged
  • Publisher: AudioGO Ltd.
  • Audible Release Date: 7 Dec 2009
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00304PT36
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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Delving into the interesting, amusing and often bizarre lore of numbers, this intriguing book uncovers the numbers that have shaped our history and culture, from ancient Babylon to the present day.

Light-hearted and entertaining, but chock-full of fascinating and little-known detail, here you'll find the origins of many well-worn numeric words and phrases, explanations of numbers in art and popular culture, and numbers of religious and mythical significance and the superstitions surrounding them.

As Easy as Pi goes 'the whole nine yards' and celebrates the real value of the numbers we all know and love.

©2009 Jamie Buchan; (P)2009 BBC Audiobooks Ltd
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I saw the title to this book shortly after I had been told that one of my grandchildren had learned Pi to 36 decimal places. I was familiar with the series so without knowing anything more about the book than its title I ordered it. It has excited three of them (ages 7-12)and they love to demonstrate to me not only that they have looked at the book but that they have learned something from it! A book that achieves a result like that does not need a review!
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By Iain S. Palin TOP 500 REVIEWER
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This isn't a book about maths it's about numbers. It's another in the series of little hardback books that give you the interesting stuff from schooldays plus a bit more. So yes, some maths do appear but so do numerology, discussions about why certain numbers are lucky or unlucky in certain cultures, an entertaining round-up of film and book titles and popular phrases where numbers appear, explanations of the Golden Rectangle and the Fibonacci sequence that actually help the reader understand them, and a number of other short tours of the worlds of numbers.
I hated maths at school, I wasn't good at it and I never thought it would interest me. I got this book because I have others in the series and found them readable and informative, and with pleased surprise can report that this one is just as good.
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Having always been a bit of a maths geek and after reading other books in this series I thought that this one was worth a look too. It includes all kinds of entertaining trivia on numbers, from uses in TV programmes (the fake telephone number section is funny) to the role of numbers in religion. I found it quite educational and my parents also really liked it.
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