200% of nothing : an eye-opening tour through the twists and turns of math abuse and innumeracy / A.K. Dewdney.
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- 0471577766
- Two hundred percent of nothing
- 200% of nothing : from percentage pumping to irrational ratios : an eye-opening tour through the twists and turns of math abuse and innumeracy [Cover title]
- 519.5 22
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- QA 41
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Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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Book | Högskolan Väst Övre plan / Upper floor | 519.5 Dewdney | Available | 200376360049D |
Innumeracy and math abuse -- Statistics and damned lies -- The mathematics of advertising -- Intelligent dice -- The law of zero return -- Caveat emptor -- The government figures -- Living with risk -- Gee-whiz media math -- The tip of the iceberg -- Everybody is a mathematician -- Street math -- Annotated bibliography -- Acknowledgments: The abuse detectives
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