400 and Gamebooks - Numberphile

James Clewett graphs one of his favourite books and explains the significance of 400. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ "Turn to 400" Kickstarter: http://kck.st/T2ND32...

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JAMES GRIME: It's like I'm pulling out beadson a piece of string.And as they're pulling taut, it's unraveling the knot,which is the story.If, like me, you're a child of the '80s, then you'll probablyremember these books--Fighting Fantasy Books, written by Steve Jackson andIan Livingstone, where you get to choose your own routethrough the book.So this book isn't broken up into pages, but rather, it'sbroken up into paragraphs, sections.And at the end of each section, you get to choose, asalways, turn to section 282.Let's look at this section for a moment, all right?Section 267--we're on our adventure, and we find ourselves at acrossroads.It's incredible how often, in these books...
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