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World Service,03 Jan 2015,10 mins

Numbers of the Year: Part Three

More or Less

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What is the most important number in the world? The BBC’s economics editor Robert Peston tells Tim Harford. Also in the first More or Less of 2015, Tim asks the international editor of The Economist Helen Joyce and Dr Hannah Fry of the University of London to choose their most memorable numbers from 2014.

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