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Flush and Forget

A Podcast Of Unnecessary Detail

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Basil Jet's Calculations

Basil Jet wrote a book in the 1850s detailing his calculations for London's sewer system. But he didn't want to show how they were done, and threw out all of their work. He thought it was ' superfluous' to have them written down on rough paper. Eventually someone got him to admit that this is not an acceptable course of action as students are studying right now.

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