Blue Sky Questions has a top maths department to cope with the tricky calculations

The fact-finding website blueskyquestions.com asked Google Maps what speed they used to calculate walking time when they give directions but they didn’t get an answer. Luckily, they had some top mathematicians ready to work on the problem.

“On a fairly flat piece of Surrey countryside (with pavements) Google reckons it should take you an hour to walk three miles. Our maths department tells us that’s three miles per hour.”

And people say education’s gone down the nick …

Source: blueskyquestions