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    Oct 01, 2020 3 minutes

    Numerical minds

    ■ Dear HIW,

    I love the space and science sections of your magazine, and I also really love maths. I see numbers and other things associated with maths as beautiful, but a lot of people who I know don’t like numbers. I wanted to know why my brain sees maths as beautiful and why others see it in the opposite way. Laila, 11

    Maths is all about understanding patterns, and like yourself, some people take joy from

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