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Exploring tales of data and discovery in Uncharted
Listeners’ feedback on Uncharted’s numerical investigation and the producer responds. Plus a listener asks why the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ uses imperial measurements when most of the world is metric?
Professor Hannah Fry recently explored tales of data and discovery in her series Uncharted - running as part of the Discovery programme. We hear listeners’s feedback to this numerical investigation and we are joined by the series producer.
Plus, a listener asks why imperial measurements are used in ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ reports when most of the world do not use this system?
Presenter: Rajan Datar
Producer: Howard Shannon
A Whistledown production for the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service
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