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It's time for Fun Numbers, the show that celebrates the joy of applied arithmetic. Now, some people can be measured by using numbers. Politicians, for instance, can be measured by their numbers of supporters. When a politician this right-wing network likes is only supported by ten percent of the population, subtraction is necessary in order to let the voters who like him win the election. We can start by barring single mothers from the polling stations. And arithmetic doesn't just win elections, it creates fortunes. Let's look at this ten dollar bill. Suppose I told you it was only worth about fifty cents, what would we need to do? That's right, we'd need to add zeroes to the banknote. So now it's not a ten dollar bill any more, it's a thousand dollar bill. Isn't this funner than just coloring numbers with wax crayons and giving them credit for sponsoring the program?
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