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Another Five Numbers

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Simon Singh begins another investigation into the history and merits of some of the special numbers in maths beginning with the numberfour. The number four has dominated one of geometry's most perplexing problems - how many hues does it take to make a map so that no two regions with identical Colours ever meet? Producer Adrian Washbourne

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Simon Singh
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Adrian Washbourne
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