NUMBERS
[A Book for People Who Love Numbers - New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/22/books/22stats.html?ex=1298264400&en=2210f2c860bd77e5&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss)
> Richard Sutch and Susan Carter don't expect anybody to take their new book to the beach.
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> For starters, it weighs 29 pounds. It has five volumes. And it's densely packed with more than a million numbers that measure America in mind-boggling detail, from the average annual precipitation in Sweet Springs, Mo., to the wholesale price of rice in Charleston S.C., in 1707.
Wow. This is awesome. I applaud these two crazy number nerds on their phenomenal achievement putting this thing out.