Knowledge and use of basic mathematics has always been an inherent and integral part of individual and group life and clearly never more so than amongst The Regulars when faced with the weekly intellectual challenge of pub quiz down The Local.
Whilst it is an accepted fact that, by the time the Renaissance was under way, scientists were beginning to grapple with new concepts and working out how mathematics could be used to explain the world around them, even the vast collective intellect of The Regulars and, indeed, a by now honorary Regular at pub quiz, Archimedes - a mathematical genius centuries ahead of his time, may have struggled to come to terms with with the particular complexity of the undeniably challenging pub quiz question of:
“Name the numeral system that represents numeric values using only the numbers 0 and 17.”
Were it not for a more meticulous re-reading of the question by Quiz-Mistress Dolly Parton and a hasty correction to,
“Actually, it’s 0, 1 and a question mark!”
there would have been a distinct possibility that The Regulars could have been puzzling yet.
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