Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

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Al igual que el Diablo de los Números, la enseñanza de las matemáticas para ser exitosa debe tener un componente lúdico que enseñe a perder el miedo y a desacralizar.

It seems the first human whose name has been passed down through millennia of history was not a ruler, a warrior or a priest … but an accountant. Simply telling people not to make any mistakes is a naive way to try to avoid accidents and disasters.A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym class leaping to Snap's 1990 hit I've Got The Power?

A little larger or heavier construct suddenly passes a limit where previously minor problems become major ones or add up in odd ways. After the official investigation had ruled out an earthquake, they found the culprit was an exercise class on the twelfth floor. But to my eye it looks like two numbers of different sizes have been combined and have produced an unnecessary level of precision as a result. As each chapter is independent of others it’s easy to dip in and out of the book when one fancies light relief from the more serious business of reading fiction!I know it’ll be a matter of a reader’s interests but about half of the book covered topics I regarded as dull, so you’ll need to work to find the ones that interest you. The Null problem can be fixed by encoding names in a format for only character data, so that it doesn’t get confused with the data value of NULL. My major criticism is that despite the clear over-arching theme of maths problems, the book still does not feel that cohesive. Books on the same topic seem to me too frozen when a lively discussion online, something interactive, is often a better way to understand the problem. The pragmatic approach is to acknowledge this and build a system robust enough to filter mistakes out before they become disasters.

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The main characters altered the computer code at a company so that, whenever interest was being calculated, instead of being rounded to the nearest penny the value would be truncated and the remaining fractions of a penny deposited into their account. Some of the stories read like jokes – in the sense that you know there is going to be a punchline coming soon, and so you try to guess it before it comes.La mayor parte son fallos de diseño ingenieril, negligencias de diseño ingenieril (hay un puente que hacen mal a sabiendas a pesar de que conocían que los cálculos estructurales estaban mal antes de empezar a construirlo, fallos informáticos y un montón de datos curiosos pero inútiles acerca de mil disciplinas, eso sí, relacionadas todas con las matemáticas. Fun, informative, and relentlessly entertaining, Humble Pi is a charming and very readable guide to some of humanity's all-time greatest miscalculations--that also gives you permission to feel a little better about some of your own mistakes. It’s not often sunny in London, but when a sun-filled day in summer 2013 lined up with the recently completed windows, a death heat-ray swept across London. I was thinking some of my maths teacher friends might enjoy it and find it useful for illustrations in class. For a start, if you’re not used to the cheese-tastic world of inspirational work posters, what you see will come as a shock.