A five-part series revealing how aspects of people's s everyday lives can depend on higher mathematics. Part one is showing as part of Count Me In, a number of programmes, including some in The Learning Zone, on this week highlighting the issue of numeracy.

Mathematician Fisher Dilke finds out why the gamblers' ruin theorem seems to condemn people who play games of chance to losing in the long run, unless, as those at the New York Cotton Exchange have done, they find a way to tip the odds in their favour.
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Count Me In Helpline: ring free on [number removed] for a free booklet, a CD Rom price £2.50, and for this week only a free advice line number for specific numeracy queries. For information see Ceefax page 630, and the web site is [web address removed]