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The unit of a light-year, that is, the distance travelled by light in a year (in a vacuum) is specified using the Julian year of 365.25 days. So we measure our current cosmos using a unit in part defined by an ancient Roman.p. 154
The selection pressure is not on accuracy. Wrong and alive is evolutionarily better than correct and dead.p. 131
The massive CEO pay packages still awarded today are a fossil of when company boards didn't do the maths.p. 7
Mathematicians aren't people who find maths easy; they're people who enjoy how hard it is.