Posts Tagged ‘math’

Emergent Thematics

I should have been reading it, but I’ve been listening to Anathem. And I’m nearly through. Though, it has left a few lingering questions in my brain that I’m starting to consider might not be answered — or rather, might be puzzles left for the reader. If I had the dead-tree version [...]

And the Winner is…

Well, as promised, the big announcement you’ve all been waiting for!  Not only were there multiple people who got it right, but there were exactly THREE people who guessed correctly that the only completely true statement was Statement #3 — and guessed that prior to the FIRST DAY MIDNIGHT DEADLINE as per the rules. [...]

I Am One Billion

Call it retroactive boredom. One day — I don’t remember when — a couple years back I was bored. Does that set the stage? I must have been typing odd conversions into Google, calculating the number of hours in a year, or the number of minutes in a decade. It was that [...]

Happy Pi Day

Do I smell a tasty new family tradition? Mmm…. Pie. You know you want a piece.
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