A Problem Squared

146 = Five-ish or Four-ish and Have Tank But No Fish

A Problem Squared

Show Notes

🟰 How do you round 0.44999999... to 1 decimal place? 🐟 What creative things can be done with a fish tank that has no fish? šŸ‚ And we have some Autumnal Other Business

Head to our BlueSky/Twitter/Instagram to see some platonic solids for platonic friends, some gorgeous Welsh scenery, some diorama inspo, some toilet wine and a really old maths book.

BBC Archive: The Street With Confounding House Numbers from 1961 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr6Gxb97W_c

How the Japanese house numbering system works… https://geoawesome.com/how-the-crazy-japanese-addressing-system-works-explained/

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