The Gulag Archipelago
'Alexander Dolgun invented a method of measuring his cell. The numbers 10/22 were stamped on the bottom of his prison bowl, and he guessed that 10 was the diameter of the bottom, and 22 the diameter of the outside edge. Then he pulled a thread from a towel, made himself a tape measure and measured everything with it. His cell was 156 by 209 cm.'
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