Whether you’re cooking up chemistry, getting physical with physics or bending your mind over mathematics, one thing that remains constant is, well, constants. Some numbers are so fundamental to the way we conduct science that we’d be lost without them, and their discovery has helped us better understand the world around us.
So how many of these key figures do you know? Try our new quiz and find out. We’ll be dropping another number in the mix every day for you to guess, and if you prove yourself to be a numberphile, maybe you’ll make it to the top of our leaderboard. All you need to do is register and your score will be saved, and be sure to leave a comment and share how you got on (but no spoilers please).
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