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― Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
― Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
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The History Book Club
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This is a group for people who want to read the classics and discuss them as a group. Each month we will choose as a group a book to read. Everyone is ...more
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