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200% of nothing : an eye-opening tour through the twists and turns of math abuse and innumeracy / A.K. Dewdney.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Wiley, cop. 1993Description: ix, 182 s. illISBN:
  • 0471577766
Other title:
  • 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]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 519.5 22
Other classification:
  • QA 39
  • QA 41
  • Ta
Contents:
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
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
Book Högskolan Väst Övre plan / Upper floor 519.5 Dewdney Available 200376360049D
Total holds: 0

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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