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Numbers of the Year: Part Three

What is the most important number in the world? Robert Peston tells us and Helen Joyce and Dr Hannah Fry choose their most memorable numbers from 2014.

What is the most important number in the world? The 91福利社鈥檚 economics editor Robert Peston tells Tim Harford.

Also in the first More or Less of 2015, Tim asks the international editor of The Economist Helen Joyce and Dr Hannah Fry of the University of London to choose their most memorable numbers from 2014.

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Tue 6 Jan 2015 09:50GMT
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