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Sunday, October 20, 2019
Math Problem
John Allen Paulos, Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (New York: Hill and Wang, 1988), p. 11:
Compute roughly how many acts of sexual intercourse occur each day in the world.
Id., p. 18:
[A]ssume that Reagan and Thatcher are placed in a large burlap bag.