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    “11:11” collection by Winde Rienstra

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted November 1, 2011

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    Travels in a Mathematical World

    Oh, email

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted October 30, 2011

    I feel, increasingly, that I am not coping well with my email. I just found some data to illuminate this. So here is what has happened to the raw number of emails sent and received over the past eight years. This year so far (up to yesterday, the 29th October) I have 19357 emails, more…

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    Travels in a Mathematical World

    How many barleycorn in a giant slipper?

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted October 23, 2011

    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…

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    Arty Maths

    La somme des hypothèses by Vincent Mauger

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted October 22, 2011

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    Arty Maths

    ARCHEOLOGY/DIET by STUDIOLAV

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted October 22, 2011

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    Travels in a Mathematical World

    Experimental checking

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted October 21, 2011

    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…

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    Parmenides I by Dev Harlan

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted October 20, 2011

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