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Adelaide Fringe 2012: Your days are numbered: The maths of death (comedy)


Multiple sessions between Tuesday 6 March 2012 & Saturday 10 March 2012.
Session dates & times:
Tuesday 6 March 2012 (8:00pm), Wednesday 7 March 2012 (8:00pm), Thursday 8 March 2012 (8:00pm), Friday 9 March 2012 (8:00pm), Saturday 10 March 2012 (8:00pm)
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Adelaide Fringe 2012: Your days are numbered: The maths of death (comedy)

“A clever combination, worth more than the sum of its parts” – The Advertiser 

Drinking is good for you. Being single is bad for you. You have a 0.000043% chance of dying during this show.

After sell-out performances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, comedian Timandra Harkness and stand up mathematician Matt Parker presented a show on the maths of death.

Related Content

Read the review by Clare Peddie from The Advertiser 

Read the blog post – Death “o” meter: the risks of being alive and the maths of death – By Lina Marcela Landinez Gomez

View the media release - Counting down the days – the maths of death (Adelaide) (24 February 2012)

View the media release - Counting down the days – the maths of death (Melbourne) (24 February 2012)

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