Steve Landsburg poses a mathematical puzzle about population sex ratios, asking readers to determine the expected percentage of females in a population with a specific family planning approach. via The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics
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