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1. As soon as the question has been read, the countdown will begin.2. Write your answer legibly, and get it to ‘The SPOT’ before you hear ‘STOP’!3. First correct answer scores 10 points, second 9 points etc.4. You may confer.

Good Luck!

Famous Mathematicia

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Curious numbers

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1010

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• 4x(1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7+…)• In 1995, Hiroyuki Goto recited 42 000 digits of this number from memory - it took 9 hours!

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At the movies...

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Quotable quotes...

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“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not

only truth, but supreme b-----, a b----- cold and

austere like that of sculpture…”