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Gulliver's Laws: Lecture 5: Dwarf and Giant Numbers

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on BBC Two England

The Royal Institution, London Annual Christmas Lectures to Young People
by Professor Philip Morrison

So far we have used only the arithmetic of ratio and we know that Gulliver was twelve times bigger than his Lilliputian hosts. In considering numbers in life we discover that words can be produced by drawing lots, taking us far into nature and language.
(Recorded this afternoon at the Royal Institution)
(Lecture 6: Thursday at 6.0 p.m.)
(Colour)
(to 19.00)

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Lecturer:
Professor Philip Morrison
Presented for television by:
Alan Sleath
Source: Radio Times

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