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Letter: More theories on why T. rex had tiny arms (2)

Published 24 June 2026

From John Woodgate, Rayleigh, Essex, UK

T. rex developed these features for deception, so as to look relatively ‘armless.

For the record

Paul Erdős conjectured that the maximum number of connections in the planar unit distance problem would grow only slightly larger than the number of points, as you added more points to the grid (30 May, p 6).

Issue no. 3601 published 27 June 2026

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