4: The currency that cuts crime
Lateral with Tom Scott
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Does He Work With Cubic Feet?
There are 1728 cubic inches in a cubic foot. That's exactly the sort of thing that mathematicians and engineers are going to be nerdy about. And he even- he wrote a letter to his business partner, James Watt, who was basically- he invented or made a really big improvement to the steam engine. So maybe he deals with a lot of like cubic feet, but he has to remember how many cubic inches.
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