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Why the World’s Best Mathematicians Are Hoarding Chalk
Great Big Story
A short Great Big Story piece about Hagoromo, a Japanese chalk brand so prized that mathematicians stockpiled it, with some reportedly dealing it on the side. It tells the quirky tale of a writing tool whose supply became scarce.
Cited as an amusing side story whenever HN discusses blackboards, chalk, and how mathematicians work.
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