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Mathematically, we’d be a month ahead

The most prolific mathematician of the 20th Century, Paul Erdos, preferred amphetamines, which he used to fuel 20-hour number benders.

When a friend bet him $500 that he couldn’t stop for a month, he won but complained “You’ve set mathematics back a month”.

The BBC.

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