Status Updates From Humble Pi: When Math Goes W...

"In the apothecaries' system of weight units, a pound is divided into 12 ounces, which each consist of 8 drams. A dram is then 3 scruples, each made from 20 grains. I hope that made sense. A grain is one 5,760th of a pound. But not a normal pound: this is a troy pound. Which is different from a normal pound. And people wonder why the metric system was invented." (78)

"Thankfully, this was way back in 2015, and in the years since then, people have become much better at spotting fake news online." (78) ow it hurts though

"I guess the idea is that the aircraft was lucky to survive a dangerous situation, so having a part of the plane should bring good luck. But then again, the vast majority of airplanes don't crash at all so, strictly speaking, this plane was bad luck. I bought a piece of the fuselage and attached it to my laptop, which does not seem to have crashed more, or less, than usual." (83) badumchhh

"Overnight, in November 1983, the index jumped from the incorrect 524.811 up to the newly recalculated
1098.892. That is an increase of 574.081 overnight* with no corresponding change in the market. I have no idea how stock traders respond to such an unexpected jump up; like some kind of anti-crash. I assume they jumped back in through windows and blew cocaine out of their
noses." (123)