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Is athletics at high altitude likely to break high-jump records? Can a weight-lifter gain an unfair advantage from a timely fart? And how can one compute the risk of contracting a sexually transmitted infection from a risky assignation? In his new book, Ballparking, mathematician and physicist Aaron Santos shows that maths isn't just useful, it's fun too...

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