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Counting Numbers; What Counts?: How we get from 1, 2, 3 to How many fish in the sea?; Numbers in the World: How numeracy connects to everyday life; The Second Technique: Visualisation Paint a picture in your mind; Measuring Up; About the Size of it: Numbers to Quantify the Space we Live in; The Third Technique: Divide and Conquer Take one bite at a time; Ticking Away: How we measure the fourth dimension; An Even Briefer History of Time; Multidimensional Measures: Areas and Volumes; The Fourth Technique: Rates and Ratios Knock ’em down to size; Massive Numbers: Heavy-duty numbers for weighing up; Getting up to speed: Putting a value on velocity; Intermission; Numbers in the Wild: Variability and Distribution; The Fifth Technique: Log Scales Comparing the very small to the very big; The Numbers of Science; Heavens Above: Measuring the Universe; A Bundle of Energy: Measuring the Spark; Bits, Bytes and Words: Measurement for the Information Age; Let Me Count the Ways: The Biggest Numbers in the Book; Numbers in Public Life; The Bluffer’s Guide to National Finances; Everybody Counts: Population Growth and Decline; Measuring How We Live: Inequality and Quality of life; Summing Up: Numbers Still Count

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