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math

Dec 14, 2019

A Geometric One-Liner

Which boxes have a volume equal to their surface area? One line of Python finds them all, and a week of brute force can't find any more.

May 19, 2013

Entropy: The opposite of chaos

Which image below looks more disorderly? Which seems more chaotic? Perhaps these seems like trick questions - they're not. They may seem like leading…

Aug 18, 2012

Rage Faces and Math

A co-worker of mine recently emailed me a link to a rage face comic with the following: 'Is this always true??? I mean the math part... Stephen???' Knowing…