In preparation for this year's snooker world championship, Wim Hordijk finds some powerful maths behind snooker statistics...

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Wheelchair racing is one of the most exciting disciplines in the Paralympics. And it's not just a wheel-based equivalent of Olympic racing: John D. Barrow, mathematician, cosmologist and prolific popular science writer, has spotted an important difference.