It’s been almost two years since I last sat down with my friend David Cushing and did what God put us on this Earth to do: review integer sequences. This week I lured David into my office with promises of tasty food and showed him some sequences I’d found. Thanks to (and also in spite of)…
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of June, and compiled by Manan, is now online at Math Misery. 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.
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 55 of Puzzlebomb, for July 2016, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 55 – July 2016 (printer-friendly version) There’s also an online electronic version of the puzzle in this issue. The solutions to Issue 55 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 55 – Solutions – July 2016 (printer-friendly version)…
When I have been involved with running exams (I wasn’t, really, this year), special care seems to be made to spread these out so that where possible students don’t get exams bunched together. Still, I’ve heard students complain “we only have one day off between the Monday and Wednesday exams, that isn’t enough time to…
Previously, we posted about Katie’s Binary Nail varnish tutorial video, and how you can use glitter (1) and no glitter (0) to encode binary messages in your nail varnish. We also posted an accompanying puzzle, stated as: Suppose I want to paint my nails on one hand differently every day for a month – so…
MathJax, the web library that provides LaTeX-quality mathematical typesetting, has received a a new set of tools to improve accessibility of mathematical notation. The new MathJax Accessibility Extensions add on-the-fly speech rendering of notation, and a tool to explore expressions through intelligent collapsing and expanding of sub-expressions.
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 54 of Puzzlebomb, for June 2016, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 54 – June 2016 The solutions to Issue 54 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 54 – June 2016 – Solutions (printer-friendly version) Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found at Puzzlebomb.co.uk.