Author name: Tanuj Kumar

Look at your hands and—most likely—you have a finite number of fingers on them. That is, you don’t have an endless number of fingers on any hand. On average, a human has ten fingers and ten toes. But, what exactly is “ten?”—not the word, but the quantity. Our Science editor Tanuj Kumar takes us to infinity and beyond by extending the numbers!

The editor of The Strand’s brand-new Science section explains the scientific benefits of paper and pen, and why you should sometimes leave your laptop at home.