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Issue 9
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September 1999

What is the Mandlebrot Set and what are fractals? Why do more numbers in nature start with a 1 than with any other digit? What is Benford's Law? And how were thinkers such as Pythagoras and Newton able to tackle different problems presented to them? This issue explains it all.

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