num_pages: 240
description: This isn't a book of statistics and it isn't a book of science. It has nothing whatsoever to do with actuaries or accountants. Number Freaking is a book of surreal sums and absurd it's doodling with numbers, doing sums in your head just for fun, playing dice with the universe. It's the art of putting numbers where none existed before to take an offthewall peek behind the curtains at how numbers rule our lives. It's about taking numbers that were never meant to be in the same room, crashing them together and seeing what comes out the other end. Number Freaking reveals the low drama of life, the unexpected realities and unforeseen truths that emerge only when numbers are tested to destruction. Discover for yourself how far you walk in a lifetime, how many people have ever lived and how to cure world debt in this essential guide to modern life.
language: English
title: Number Freaking: How to Change the World with Delightfully Surreal Statistics
titlecomplete: Number Freaking: How to Change the World with Delightfully Surreal Statistics
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 20
publisher: Disinformation Books