On Thursday this week you, as I, may have awoken to giant slipper news. The story, that Tom Boddingham ordered a size 14.5 slipper but was sent a size 1,450 after manufacturers failed to spot a decimal point in his order, was widely reported. I first saw it on the Telegraph site but they’ve done…
La somme des hypothèses by Vincent Mauger
ARCHEOLOGY/DIET by STUDIOLAV
Experimental checking
Yesterday I mentioned the importance of experimentally checking mathematical results in a piece over at Second Rate Minds. You may know that Second Rate Minds is the writing exercise blog on which Samuel Hansen and I take turns writing and editing each others pieces while we enjoy playing with different styles. This time I decided…
Parmenides I by Dev Harlan
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La fabrique sonore by Ali Monemi and Robin Meier
Least world records
This morning I saw a tweet from Tony Mann about Berry’s Paradox, formulated by Tony as “The smallest integer not identifiable in a tweet“. (A paradox, of course, because that phrase identifies a specific integer.) This reminds me that I have noticed a few times recently people online reciting the joke that goes like: “I…