Particularmente no soy de computadoras por lo que todo lo que tiene que ver con programación me resulta muy aburrido. Parker has a great way with explaining technical subjects, distilling it down to layman terms while retaining his humor.

Parker takes us through some of his favourite, or some of the more noteworthy, cases of maths going wrong across a variety of applications. We offer a money back guarantee if you are not fully satisfied, please contact us if you have any questions. The book covers a range of mistakes, including bridge failures, space exploration disasters, game show cheats, financial algorithms gone rogue, and so much more. Most real-world salami-slicing scams seem to use amounts greater than fractions of a penny but still operate below the threshold where people will notice and complain. The area looks as safe as safe can be … until you check the LAPD’s online map of reported crime locations.He realized it would mean there could be a shuttle launch every day for three hundred years with only one disaster. In February 2017 the BBC reported a recent Office for National Statistics (ONS) report that in the last three months of 2016 ‘UK unemployment fell by 7,000 to 1. The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math class and asked, "When am I ever going to use this in the real world? There are bountiful opportunities for him to narrate very large and tiny numbers without using scientific notation, and I personally found this fun. Supongo que ha querido dirigir su producto hacia un público más versado en el tema, y es comprensible.

We discover the trials and tribulations of getting calendars right, explore some of the oddities of probability, enjoy a bit of impossible geometry and see how getting units right (or wrong) can make all the difference. Originally a maths teacher from Australia, Matt Parker now lives in Godalming in a house full of almost every retro video-game console ever made. 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!We probably can’t make sure of that, ultimately, but setting that as your life’s goal is a worthwhile thing to do. It’s a bit like a meme I saw early in the pandemic showing right angle triangles with all sides being 1.

It has the feeling of a series of articles, and just never quite manages to tie them all together or raise a greater point. Within the system are multiple layers, each with their own defences and safeguards to slow mistakes. For the average folk, we never fully manage to put a finger on the utility of an integral or the need to prove that an isosceles triangle has two same sides (can’t I just believe it, 8th grade Geometry teacher!La gran mayoría de las historias las he leído por otras partes; el autor ha hecho una labor de recopilación principalmente, aunque ha añadido aportaciones personales, como su petición al gobierno británico de que los balones de fútbol en las señales de tráfico fueran geométricamente correctos y llevaran pentágonos y hexágonos, en lugar de solo hexágonos o su visita a una ciudad indeterminada para ver una obra de ingeniería indeterminada con la que hacerse una foto porque un amigo ingeniero le contó que la habían cagado y les había quedado un empalme medio raro. And that was already a bit of a guess (for all you stats fans, the value of 52,200 had a 90 per cent confidence interval of 23,400 to 94,300).

This book is a collection of anecdotes that you can read anywhere: most of them I had read before, and you can find them on the internet, too. I loved his rant on why phone numbers aren't numbers at all (would it be meaningful for someone to ask you what half your phone number is? I believe that ‘regardless of flight phase’ is official FAA speak for ‘This could go down mid-flight.The pragmatic approach is to acknowledge this and build a system robust enough to filter mistakes out before they become disasters. When a disaster occurs, it is a system-wide failure and it may not be fair to find a single human to take the blame. Whenever a computer cannot decipher a location, it still has to fill something in, and so 0,0 became the default location. El libro recopila cientos de pequeñas historias, intentando darles una cierta continuidad y agrupándolas por capítulos, pero podríamos decir que este es un libro casi aleatorio porque para describir todo su contenido necesitaríamos casi casi reescribir de nuevo el libro; no hay una buena manera de resumirlo.