How to write 10^14 poems

Marcus du Sautoy on the clever use of mathematics to generate poetry...

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We discuss the original book by Raymond Queneau "A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems" or "One Hundred Million Million Poems" (original French title: Cent mille milliards de poèmes). We discuss his work as an example of mathematical shortcuts - a favourite topic of Professor du Sautoy.