A miscalculation at a routine health screening presents a tantalizing mathematical mystery.
My first summer job was in a cabinetry shop. I worked there all three summers throughout high school. My boss was a crusty old shop teacher whose sense of humor and store of aphorisms had stopped evolving on approximately V-E Day. He could be one mean sonofabitch. In fact, I
I just did a word count on the novel I (to all intents and purposes) started writing yesterday. Here's what WordPerfect told me: Words: 1000 Sentences: 64 Two perfect cubes. I'll bet that doesn't happen again for the remainder of the book.
There are plenty of sources that list the distances of various stars from Earth, but does anyone know of a source for looking up the distances of stars from one another? If not, I may have to dust off some spherical geometry that I would rather leave in its rusty
Hey, kids! Wondering why you should bother studying science and math? So you can work out the formula to describe the perfect bacon butty! N = C + {fb(cm) ÷ fb(tc)} + fb(Ts) + fc ÷ ta Duh. Tomorrow we'll derive a formula to determine how many
My contribution to the January CD Mix of the Month Club was Do Not Erase: A Few Notes on Mathematics.
If The Simpsons had been around when I was in high school, my math teacher Mr. Nelson might have given us problems like this.
Happy Pi Approximation Day! One version of it, anyway.
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