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‘The human brain is an amazing calculation device, but we have evolved to make judgement calls and estimate outcomes. We are approximation machines. Maths, however, can get straight to the correct answer. It can tease out the exact point where things flip from being right to being wrong; from being correct to being incorrect; from being safe to being disastrous.’