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Life of Numbers Episodes

  1.

    The Number Five

    Why does number 5 feature so heavily in the patterns in nature?

  2. The Golden Number

    Why have some numbers been given names?

  3. Ten

    Why do we use base 10, rather than base 7, or base 15?

  4. Pi

    The number that reveals how long a circumference of a circle is in terms of its radius

  5. Two

    How is a bicycle a six-dimensional object? And what does the number 2 have to do with it?

  6. Zero

    How and where did the concept of zero come from?