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146 = Five-ish or Four-ish and Have Tank But No Fish

October 25, 2026 00:56:12 53.95 MB Downloads: 0

🟰 How do you round 0.44999999... to 1 decimal place?

🐟 What creative things can be done with a fish tank that has no fish?

🍂  And we have some Autumnal Other Business


Head to our BlueSky/Twitter/Instagram to see some platonic solids for platonic friends, some gorgeous Welsh scenery, some diorama inspo, some toilet wine and a really old maths book.


BBC Archive: The Street With Confounding House Numbers from 1961 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr6Gxb97W_c  


How the Japanese house numbering system works…

https://geoawesome.com/how-the-crazy-japanese-addressing-system-works-explained/ 


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