The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.

Each number had two names: a vowel and a consonant, from which the Reader can already see that they did not use the decimal but the quindenary numerical system.

In the Penghu Islands, the fourth agricultural region, scanty rainfall, poor soils, and strong winds, limit agricultural production to sweet potatoes and peanuts.

This is most publicly evident in Mr. Kapoor’s wildly popular “Cloud Gate,” an enormous, shiny, pillowlike archway (known as the Bean) at Millennium Park in Chicago.