NUMBERS
A Book for People Who Love Numbers - New York Times
> Richard Sutch and Susan Carter don’t expect anybody to take their new book to the beach.
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> For starters, it weighs 29 pounds. It has five volumes. And it’s densely packed with more than a million numbers that measure America in mind-boggling detail, from the average annual precipitation in Sweet Springs, Mo., to the wholesale price of rice in Charleston S.C., in 1707.
Wow. This is awesome. I applaud these two crazy number nerds on their phenomenal achievement putting this thing out.
Tags: grommes, numbers, books, america
> Richard Sutch and Susan Carter don’t expect anybody to take their new book to the beach.
>
> For starters, it weighs 29 pounds. It has five volumes. And it’s densely packed with more than a million numbers that measure America in mind-boggling detail, from the average annual precipitation in Sweet Springs, Mo., to the wholesale price of rice in Charleston S.C., in 1707.
Wow. This is awesome. I applaud these two crazy number nerds on their phenomenal achievement putting this thing out.
Tags: grommes, numbers, books, america