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The math of choosing a restaurant meal is revealed in Richard Feynman’s notes

Decades after the physicist scrawled the solution, researchers have deciphered and tested it

Richard Feynman stands in front of a blackboard in a lecture hall.

Physicist Richard Feynman was known for his love of problem-solving. That extended to the mathematics of choosing a meal at a restaurant.

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By Emily Conover

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