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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: Publication details: New York, NY : Wiley, c1993.Description: ix, 182 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0471145742 (pbk.):
Other title:
  • Two hundred percent of nothing
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QA93 .D49 1993
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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-180).

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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