I never realised I’d be able to shoehorn maths into possibly yesterday’s biggest news story - the sad and sudden death of Michael Jackson, the ‘King of Pop’ - but it’s incredible what you can dig up online.
And so, for your collective mathematical edification, and in memory of Michael Jackson, a rather silly skit from 1972 featuring Jackson trying to clear a lunch bill with some rather bad maths.
I often cheekily suggest that some of the people featured in the Whizz blog might benefit from a little online maths tuition but, with Michael Jackson, the joke would fall a little flat.