{"id":208,"date":"2005-03-28T09:21:53","date_gmt":"2005-03-28T08:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/why-do-buses-come-in-threes\/"},"modified":"2020-04-29T08:40:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T07:40:32","slug":"why-do-buses-come-in-threes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2005\/why-do-buses-come-in-threes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Buses Come in Threes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just posted my reviews of two excellent books by Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham. <a href=\"\/blog\/?bookreview=eastaway1\">&#8220;Why Do Buses Come In Threes?&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"\/blog\/?bookreview=eastaway2\">&#8220;How Long is a Piece of String?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The messages of these books are that mathematics is important to everyday life, and that it&#8217;s fun. Have you ever wondered why flowers often have five petals, how bookies&#8217; odds work, how you always end up in the slowest queue, or, indeed, why buses come in threes? If so, then this is the book for you.<\/p>\n<p>Whether as an introduction if you&#8217;ve never enjoyed maths before, or a reminder if you have, I thoroughly recommend both books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just posted my reviews of two excellent books by Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham. &#8220;Why Do Buses Come In Threes?&#8221; and &#8220;How Long is a Piece of String?&#8221; The messages of these books are that mathematics is important to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2005\/why-do-buses-come-in-threes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}