I’ve just posted my latest YouTube video, in which I explain how to use binary numbers to jazz up your nail varnish:
Alongside this video, I also have an associated puzzle for you to think about.
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Puzzlebomb – May 2016
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 53 of Puzzlebomb, for May 2016, can be found here:
Puzzlebomb – Issue 53 – May 2016
The solutions to Issue 53 can be found here:
Puzzlebomb – Issue 53 – Solutions – May 2016
Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found at Puzzlebomb.co.uk.
Carnival of Mathematics 133
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of March, and compiled by Matthew, is now online at Chalkdust Magazine.
The Carnival rounds up maths blog posts from all over the internet, including some from our own Aperiodical. See our Carnival of Mathematics page for more information.
Mind Games: 6 Nimmt!
In this series of posts, Katie will be going on about some of her favourite board games and card games, and some of the interesting mathematics to be found there. If you’d like the chance to play a mathematical board game, why not find or start a Maths Arcade at university, or join your local MathsJam.
6 Nimmt! (German: Take 6!) is a card-based game which involves a hand of numbered cards, each also containing a number of cow heads. The cards are played in rounds, and during each round everyone chooses a card to play, they’re played in order, and you may find yourself having to take cards. The aim of the game is to end with the fewest cow heads.
Erdős-Bacon: previously unknown collaboration
Previously unseen footage has been unearthed by The Aperiodical’s crack team of investigative journalists of Kevin Bacon and Paul Erdős writing a paper together, and a still from this is shown above. This has massive consequences for the important topics of Erdős numbers, Bacon numbers and Erdős-Bacon numbers.
Puzzlebomb – April 2016
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 52 of Puzzlebomb, for April 2016, can be found here:
Puzzlebomb – Issue 52 – April 2016
The solutions to Issue 52 can be found here:
Puzzlebomb – Issue 52 – April 2016 – Solutions
Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found at Puzzlebomb.co.uk.
EE = maths × sums²
Countdown number-nerd Lovely Rachel Riley has appeared in the latest advert for mobile phone agglomerate EE, alongside massive film node Kevin Bacon.
In the advert, Riley is unable to work out how anyone could not be enticed by the high mobile internet speeds (50% faster, apparently) offered by the company who are paying her to not be able to do so, and this is illustrated by a whole board full of equations and numbers which don’t seem to come to anything. Or do they?