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For those wanting to get to the figures behind the news, there’s an excellent article here on the BBC, with a link to a good podcast about the recent financial turmoil. Seems like Mathematicians may be partially to blame /-( Excellent weekly radio programme from BBC, looking at the numbers behind the news. This is exactly the sort of stuff that would enrich a university interview, so put it on your podcast list and grab half an hour a week to get smart Webpage iTunes Podcast About 30 years after it was proposed, mathematicians, engineers and scientists have finally unveiled a ‘Quantum Cryptography’ system – a way of sending information like bank details over the internet in code which can never be broken. Read the article here, and if you’re interested in the history of codes and code-breaking, there’s a great book [...] Continue reading Quantum Cryptography – the ultimate secret messenger! Ouch. The clock in America that has been counting up the ‘budget deficit’ – the overdraft of the US government – has run out of digits! They’re going to have to build a new one with two more digits… which will mean they can count up to numbers a hundred times bigger than the last [...] Continue reading Credit Crunch Clock Runs Out of Digits… |
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