The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace

William Shunn
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If The Simpsons had been around when I was in high school, my math teacher Mr. Nelson might have given us problems like this.

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William Shunn
William Shunn

Hugo and Nebula Award nominee. Creator of Proper Manuscript Format, Spelling Bee Solver, Tylogram, and more. Banned in Canada.

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My Body Math Index
Health Care

My Body Math Index

A miscalculation at a routine health screening presents a tantalizing mathematical mystery.

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Math

Happy Pi Day!

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

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Math

Cubist Writing

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.

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Astronomy

A Suggestion for Rand McNally

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

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