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'''Board of Longitude'''
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Tired of hearing betting odds against your bracket? Here are just a few other intriguing    numbers surrounding March Madness. And they are聽just that completely mad.聽
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Just a few tidbits before the  infographic:
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$1.9 Billion 鈥?Hourly losses by companies due to unproductive workers during March Madness
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$10.8 Billion 鈥?Amount  CBS/Turner Broadcasting paid for the TV rights to the 2011-2024 NCAA tournaments
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16X 鈥?The average NBA rookie earns 16X  more per year ($1.9M) than the average annual value of tuition, room and board for a D1  NCAA men basketball player ($120K)
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2X 鈥?Easier to win back-to-back Mega Millions lotteries than it is to fill out a perfect bracket
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19% 鈥?Increase in pizza orders by fans after losses vs. wins
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The acid test for the Board of Longitude was the accuracy of a timekeeper at sea over time. In 1598 King Philip III of Spain (ruled 1598–1621) offered a considerable life pension to the discoverer of longitude.
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== Literature ==
 
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*Andrewes, William J. H., ed. [[The Quest for Longitude]]. Cambridge, Mass., 1996.
 
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*Bedini, Silvio A. [[The Pulse of Time: Galileo Galilei, the Determination of Longitude, and the Pendulum Clock]]. Florence, 1991.
 
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*Gould, Rupert T. [[John Harrison and His Timekeepers]]. London, 1978.
 
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*Howse, Derek. [[Greenwich Time and the Discovery of Longitude]]. London, 1997.
 
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*Landes, David. [[Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World]]. Cambridge, Mass., 1983.
 
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*Quill, Humphrey. [[John Harrison, the Man Who Found Longitude]]. London, 1966.
 
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*Sobel, Dava. [[Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time]]. New York, 1995.
 
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*Sobel, Dava, and William J. H. Andrewes. [[The Illustrated Longitude]]. New York, 1998.
 
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*Taylor, E. G. R. [[The Haven-Finding Art: A History of Navigation from Odysseus to Captain Cook]]. London, 1971
 
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@@@ Tired of hearing betting odds against your bracket? Here are just a few other intriguing numbers surrounding March Madness. And they are聽just that completely mad.聽 Just a few tidbits before the infographic: $1.9 Billion 鈥?Hourly losses by companies due to unproductive workers during March Madness $10.8 Billion 鈥?Amount CBS/Turner Broadcasting paid for the TV rights to the 2011-2024 NCAA tournaments 16X 鈥?The average NBA rookie earns 16X more per year ($1.9M) than the average annual value of tuition, room and board for a D1 NCAA men basketball player ($120K) 2X 鈥?Easier to win back-to-back Mega Millions lotteries than it is to fill out a perfect bracket 19% 鈥?Increase in pizza orders by fans after losses vs. wins Related: 

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