Books, Badgers and Big Numbers

I stumbled into what might be some combinatorial esoterica and I can't stop thinking about it. Books Up until April 2023 we had a pretty special second hand book shop up the road, next to the local café 1 . While it was there my mid morning coffee runs usually involved having a browse and I often picked something up. A lot of the books I was buying were non-fiction, and it's this I'd like to blame…