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The Number Devil

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

Greg Mankiw recommends it
...to my younger son Peter, who is in the third grade: The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure. Highly recommended for nerdy dads (and moms) out there.

on gregmankiw.blogspot.com · 22 May 2008 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.