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Murderous Maths: The Most Epic Book of Maths EVER
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Kjartan Poskitt / Rob Davis
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The Most Epic Book of Maths EVER (formerly The Murderous Maths of Everything) is one big book with (nearly) all the answers to everything in maths EVER. Readers can join the cast of crazy characters on a tour of the Murderous Maths building to discover the darkest and deadliest mathematical secrets, including: a sure-fire way how to make birthdays last twice as long, how the number 1 starts fights, how triangles lead to murder, and much more. Maths has never been so much fun!

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For Bridget, Maisie, Florence, Dulcie and Miranda.

With thanks to Michael Jones, Rob Eastaway and Diana Kimpton for their help,

ideas and checking the sums!

Scholastic Childrens Books,

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London NW1 1DB, UK

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Editorial Director: Lisa Edwards

Editors: Victoria Garrard, Stefanie Smith and Catriona Clarke

First published in the UK as The Murderous Maths of Everything by Scholastic Ltd, 2010

This electronic edition published by Scholastic Ltd, 2015

Text copyright Kjartan Poskitt, 2010

Illustrations copyright Rob Davis, 2010, 2015

Illustrations by Rob Davis based on an original artwork style created by Philip Reeve

eISBN 978 1407 16363 5

The right of Kjartan Poskitt and Rob Davis to be identified as the author and illustrator of this work respectively has been asserted

by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.

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Nearly everything in maths is linked to something else. When you read this book look out

for the link signs so you can see how all the different bits join up!

CONTENTS

Welcome to the
Murderous Maths
Organization!

Youve picked a good time to join us
because were having a royal visit to
celebrate our first 13 years of strange
numbers, odd shapes, tricks, illusions
and puzzles. Were going to take you
on the first ever tour around the MM
building. Along the way youll get to
see the Number Vaults, the Inside-out
Room, the Research Lab, the Department
of Random Thinking and loads more!

THEYRE

HERE!

The first stop is in the busiest part
of the building and thats the mailroom.

WE GET THOUSANDS OF

QUESTIONS FROM ALL

OVER THE WORLD.

I SAY!

MY GOODNESS!

YOU HAVE

UNREAD

MESSAGES!

THESE ARE THE MURDEROUS MATHS

BOOKS. EACH ONE HAS ITS OWN

SPECIAL BIT OF MATHS.

THE PHANTOM X DESPERATE

MEASURES IM IMPRESSED.

I MAKE SURE EACH

QUESTION GOES TO THE

RIGHT BOOK.

THESE ARE ALL THE

QUESTIONS WEVE ANSWERED.

HEXAGONS THROWING DICE

IMAGINARY NUMBERS

WHATS

THAT?

THOSE ARE ALL THE

QUESTIONS WE HAVENT

ANSWERED YET.

I NEVER KNEW THERE WAS

SO MUCH MATHS.

GASP!

I HEREBY COMMAND THATYOU PRODUCE ONE GREAT

BOOK WITH ALL THE ANSWERS TO

EVERYTHING IN MATHS.

GASP!

GULP!

STEADY ON, DEAR! YOURE

ASKING AN AWFUL LOT.

OH! AM I?

AHEM! AND IN REWARD

FOR YOUR THIRTEEN YEARS

OF LOYAL SERVICE, WE

PROCLAIM THAT IT SHALL BE

IN COLOUR!

HEY, AFTER ALL THESE

YEARS, WE DISCOVER WEVE

BOTH BEEN WEARING ORANGE

NYLON SHIRTS!

SMART!

Well show you round the Murderous Maths building so you

can meet all the characters and theyll show you all the

strange bits of maths that nobody else dares to mention.

HOW TO MAKE YOUR
BIRTHDAY LAST

TWICE AS LONG.

HOW THE NUMBER 1
CAN START FIGHTS.

HOW YOUR KEYBOARD
CAN NEVER BE

IN TUNE!

HOW TO WIN
SOME MONEY!

HOW TO CUT THINGS
UP AND LEAVE THEM

IN ONE PIECE.

HOW TO CURE
THE PLAGUE!

HOW TO MAKE
CRISPS FROM

GHOST POTATOES.

HOW BIG IS A
MONSTER STAR?

HOW TRIANGLES
LEAD TO MURDER!

AND ILL BE GIVING YOU SOME
DIABOLICAL CHALLENGES.

I WANT TO KNOW HOW MUCH
THIS WILL ALL COST!

AND I WANT TO KNOW
HOW MATHS CAN BE

MURDEROUS!

THATS TWO
QUESTIONS WITH THE

SAME ANSWER!

READ ON AND
WELL EXPLAIN

WHY

Youll even find several ways to make yourself FAMOUS for ever!

The murderous pennies

WHATS THAT
CHESSBOARD

FOR?

TO WORK OUT HOW
MUCH YOU HAVE TO

PAY US!

YOU CAN PUT 1 ON THE

FIRST SQUARE, 2 ON

THE SECOND SQUARE,

3 ON THE NEXT SQUARE

AND SO ON

BUT A CHESSBOARD

HAS 64 SQUARES, SO

HOW MUCH IS THAT

ALTOGETHER?

The sum is

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 ...

+ 62 + 63 + 64

which comes to 2,080.

(2,080 is the sixtyfourth triangle number

THATS OVER TWO

THOUSAND POUNDS!

IF YOU PREFER, YOU

CAN JUST PUT ONE

PENNY ON THE FIRST

SQUARE

AND THEN 2p ON THE

NEXT SQUARE, AND THEN

4p, AND THEN 8p

SO IT DOUBLES

EVERY TIME!

Heres where we find

out how pennies can be murderous!

Lets see how many pennies go on the first few squares, and

remember, the number keeps doubling each time.

WHO CARES?

ITS JUST A FEW

PENNIES!

MAYBE 20?

ABOUT 10

WORTH?

2 x 2 =

2 x 2 x 2 =

2 x 2 x 2

x 2 =

x 2 x 2 =

So far so good, but the big question is:

How many pennies are there

on the sixty-fourth square?

To get the answer you multiply sixty-three 2s together. Its called 2 to the power of 63 and it looks like this:

263 = 22222222222222222222222222222222

2222222222222222222222222222222

The answer is

pennies.

GASP!

THATS ABOUT

92 MILLION

BILLION POUNDS

HOW BIG WILL THE

LAST SQUARE OF

THE CHESSBOARD

HAVE TO BE?

Height =
115 miles

115 miles

Suppose your coins are neatly stacked up in a cube shape...

The last square will need to measure about 115 miles (185
km) along each side, and of course the cube will be 115 miles
(185 km) high. It would be like grabbing all the major cities in the
world and making them into a big pile. The pennies would weigh more
than 30,000,000,000,000 tonnes, which is a LOT more than the cities.

Suppose we put all the pennies in one tall thin pile...

The 21st square would have over a million pennies on it and be about a mile (16 km) high.
The pennies on the 39th square would reach the moon.
The pennies on the 48th square would go beyond the sun.

The pile of pennies on the 64th square would be

about 15 light years high!
(Find out about light years

Numbers dont have to be big to cause trouble. Thevery smallest numbers might look nice and cute andsimple, but sometimes they can be really awkward!Thats why we keep them safely locked away down inour Number Vaults. Enter at your own risk

NOW THATS

MURDEROUS!

WHO OMP!

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