As the theme tune to Enterprise (spit) says, it’s been a long time. But now, my friends, it returns: the best bits from the latest Dewey Decimal subject mappings.

• Longest number: Segedunum Roman Fort Site (Wallsend, England) – 623.19362879
• Geekiest number: Reverse mathematics – 511.3
• What the Tories do want/don’t want/who knows for the public services – Creative destruction 338.9
• Down with the kids: Electric guitar music (Rock) – 787.87166
• Most OCD number: Compulsive washing – 616.85227
• Huh? number: Grammar, Comparative and general–Clusivity – 415
• For men of a certain taste: Women scientists in motion pictures – 791.4366

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It’s that time again – my favourite bits from the latest Dewey Decimal subject mappings.

• Longest number: Thermal conducticity of permafrost – 551.384015362012
• Geekiest number: Women in computer games – 794.8
• Number most likely to be confused with number for David Tennant fan clubs: Tenants’ associations – 333.5406
• Number most likely to host gigs: Knebworth House (England) – 728.80942581
• White van man: Ford Transit van – 629.2234
• Most chronological geological number: International Year of Mountains, 2002 – 551.432
• Plausible deniability: Military applications of depleted uranium – 623.45
• Ew: Menstruation in the Bible – 220.8612662

These were so much fun last time, I think they may be regular feature. These come from this week’s Dewey Decimal subject mappings.

• Longest number: Race films – 791.43652996073
• Sexiest number: Erotic stories, Korean – 895.7300803538
• Grossest number: Sick in motion pictures – 791.436561
• Most out of this world: Lunar volcanoes – 551.2109991
• Most down to Earth: Interactive whiteboards – 004.75
• Down with the kids number: Video wrestling games – 794.86812
• D’oh: Simpson, Homer (Fictitious character) – 741.5973