Anyone watching Charlie Epps solve murder mysteries week after week with a chalkboard starts to question the premise behind Numb3rs. However, Chris Budd at Bath University says it's more realistic than you might think. In an article for plus+ magazine, Chris discusses how the inverse method can determine whether a car accident was caused by speeding and to find the source of poison released into a water network.Also on this topic, here's an NPR interview with math specialist Keith Devlin, also discussing the show's realism.
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