Mission: Impossible - Quantifying Santa
What to look out for on Christmas Eve.
Father Christmas, Santa Clause, Babbo Natale, Pere Noel, St Nicholas: the man with many names who gets in his sleigh and travels the globe delivering presents to children that have been determined 鈥榞ood鈥� by some unknown algorithm. Mathematicians and Statisticians have long grappled with the question of how he manages this. Is he omnipresent, armed with an improbability device or is it just magic? The more or less team explore what we should be looking out for if we want to catch a glimpse of the mysterious gift giver with the help of Dr Paul Bruce, Senior Lecturer in Experimental Aerodynamics at Imperial College London.
Presenters: Lizzy McNeill and Jordan Dunbar
Producer: Lizzy McNeill
(Letters to Santa Claus Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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- Sat 22 Dec 2018 05:50GMT大象传媒 World Service except East and Southern Africa & South Asia
- Christmas Eve 2018 13:50GMT大象传媒 World Service Australasia & South Asia only
- Christmas Day 2018 02:50GMT大象传媒 World Service Online, UK DAB/Freeview, News Internet, West and Central Africa & Europe and the Middle East only
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