At normal transactions.

It's a kind of cyber attack on a bank.

Ten of millions of dollars.

Something I don't think anybody has seen before.

It's a cyber criminal group.

From the BBC World Service.

The Lazarus Ice is back for season two.

It was really like in the movies.

Find out more at the end of this podcast.

Thank you for downloading the more or less podcast.

We're your guide to the numbers all around us in the news and in life.

And I'm Tim Halford.

The world of numbers can be complex.

It's not always easy to know how to present them, how to explain them, and how to use them.

Many of us became acutely aware of just how important an understanding of numbers was during the pandemic.

When confronted with daily updates of COVID cases and deaths presented in all sorts of different ways.

Tables, charts, graphs, and of course social media posts and countless paragraphs of media commentary.

It was a whirlwind of information and misinformation coming from all sorts of different sources.

So how can we equip ourselves to understand numbers better?

Oliver Johnson is a professor of information theory at the University of Bristol in the southwest of England,

whose observations during COVID became quite well known in the Twitter sphere and elsewhere.

And he has a new book out called number crunch.

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