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Letter: Wow!

Published 22 June 2011

From Tom Heydeman

I was impressed to see on the back cover advertisement (28 May) that Mercedes-Benz is celebrating “125! years of innovation”. Factorial 125, the number of years claimed, is more than 10200, so the company started to innovate unimaginable aeons before the big bang.

Reading, Berkshire, UK

Issue no. 2818 published 25 June 2011

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