How often do we come up against people who are convinced that mathematics is pointless? TV game show
Pointless requires contestants to obtain the lowest score to win against their opponents.
Plus magazine discusses the maths behind this idea in two articles. The first looks at luck and unluckiness in TV game shows (with reference to
Pointless); the second looks at some of the more general mathematical ideas related to
Pointless specifically.
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