Acquaint yourself with matters mathematical
With apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan, but I meant the other type of English major: a person who studied English at university.
American maths author Ben Orlin has a new book out aimed at this demographic. (More on this below.)
the sum of all squares from 1 to 499
the sum of all cubes from 500 to 999
17% of 32
32% of 17
3997/4001
4996/5001
the square root of 6
the cube root of 15
the number of seconds in a year,
the number of hours in a millennium
2100
545
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