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The Number Five
Why does number 5 feature so heavily in the patterns in nature?
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The Golden Number
Why have some numbers been given names?
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Ten
Why do we use base 10, rather than base 7, or base 15?
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Pi
The number that reveals how long a circumference of a circle is in terms of its radius
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Two
How is a bicycle a six-dimensional object? And what does the number 2 have to do with it?
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Zero
How and where did the concept of zero come from?