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How long does it take to read The World's Most Famous Math Problem?

Marilyn Vos Savant

The World's Most Famous Math Problem by Marilyn Vos Savant takes about 1 hour 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 1 hour 28 minutes

An evening's read

First published 1993. 80 pages, about 22,000 words.

3 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 2 hours 27 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 1 hour 28 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 55 minutes

The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Presents the proof of Fermat's last theorem and other math mysteries.

Subjects: Fermat's last theorem

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