4: The currency that cuts crime
Lateral with Tom Scott
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Is That the Cube of Something Interesting?
English specifically from Birmingham. You were kind of- Yeah, with the whole maths thing. So I wonder- Is like 1728 like- Is that the cube of something interesting? Hmm, probably. It's a cube of 1728. For some reason, I've got a pen and paper here, and I just put square root 1728. As if I was somehow going to be able to calculate that immediately. But it sounds like you can multiply a load of numbers together and get 1728, but I don't know- What would his math- So what sort of stuff do engineers work with? What have we- Waitz and materials- Engineer and manufacturer.
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