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What a coincidence!

January 1998

A controversy is afoot. Some people claim that the Hebrew text of the Old Testament contains encoded predictions which are valid today. For example, the 1995 murder of the Israeli Prime Minister Mr Rabin is apparently foretold. Other people deny these claims. They agree that such messages may be found but say that similar coincidences will necessarily occur whenever a large book is studied in such a way. Feelings are running rather high.

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Letters

January 1998

What did the Romans know?

Did the Romans understand the concept of "zero" and did they have a Roman numeral for zero? Did the Romans understand the concept of fractions and how did they represent them?

J. Reynolds

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BETT'98

January 1998

We were able to have a stand at BETT this year, kindly provided by UCLES, one of our sponsors.

PASS Maths stand at BETT

PASS Maths stand at BETT

Thanks to those of you who came along to see us.

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Coincidences are familiar to us all but what are the so-called laws of chance? From coin tossing to freak weather events, Geoffrey Grimmett explains how probability is at the heart of it all.