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Lang Matl
Author Tattersall, Graham.

Title Geekspeak : a guide to answering the unanswerable, making sense of the nonsensical, and solving the unsolvable / by Graham Tattersall.

Imprint New York : Harper Perennial, 2010, c2007.

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Location Call No. Status
 CCQ - Lusail Female Library  QA93.T38 2008    Available
 CCQ - Lusail Male Library  QA93    Available
Edition 1st Harper Perennial ed.
Description x, 239 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Note Originally published: London : Fourth Estate, 2007.
Contents Scrabbling for words -- Pumping iron -- Safe as houses -- Well connected -- Fatal attraction -- Home alone -- Beam me up, Scotty -- Hidden death -- It's for you -- War chest -- When the wind blows --You're rubbish -- The cunning fox -- Fly wheel
Summary Graham Tattersall uses his math skills to identify solutions to some of life's great questions, and deciphers the depth of someone's vocabulary, the weight of a house, whether the dead outnumber the living, the best words to use in a personal ad
Subject Mathematics -- Popular works.
Added Title Geek speak
ISBN 9780061626784 (pbk.)
0061626783 (pbk.)