Circling back to the beginning

In this thoroughly irrational column, discover the root of one man’s lifelong obsession with maths – and accidental side-route into computers

Dick Pountain is editorial fellow of PC Pro and quite satisfied with his slice of the π. He has indeed been writing for the magazine since its beginning in 1994. Email dick@dickpountain.co.uk Astute readers will have noticed that this is the 30th anniversary issue of PC Pro, and since this is a monthly magazine, and since there are 12 months in a year, and since this is my 360th opinion column, the corollary is that I’ve been writing here since the beginning. I use the word “corollary” there because it suggests a mathematical proof, and that is a ham-fisted way of introducing my theme for this month, which is mathematics. 360 is a special number not simply because it…

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PC Pro (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2024

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