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Thu 10 Oct 2009Using maths to figure out what you have not been told
HAVING A better understanding of maths could help prevent your being deceived by a scam artist. It helps show the improbabilities presented by a cheater and identifies what you are not being told.
So argues Nadia Baker, the schools outreach officer with the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University and the Winton Programme for the Public Understanding of Risk.
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