May 5th, 2010
Reluctant golfer that he is, the God of Whizz has finally stumbled across the best use for all those silly little balls – maths. Fractals, in fact.
Rather than serve only to be hooked, sliced, or shanked into the near distance, chased by a volley of insults, hundreds of red and blue golf balls have been put towards a magnificent three-dimensional Sierpinski Triangle (or tetrahedron, in this instance).
A use for golf balls - maths fractal pyramid
To those otherwise unversed in Sierpinski’s Triangle (also known as a ‘gasket’), it’s a beautifully elegant fractal.
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May 4th, 2010
Stuck without a simple pumpkin pie recipe? Try this!
Pumpkin Pie recipe
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April 6th, 2010
Pi is a wonderful, fabulous, and famously irrational number. It even knows when you’re hungry, as the below mathematical equation amply demonstrates.
As comedy maths puzzlers go, this one is a little forced, but nevertheless fun to share. I confess it took The God of Whizz a few goes to figure out that Pi = ‘pie’ (look at the scribbly reflected numbers).
Despite this neat coincidence, I somehow suspect that sharing this fancy formula in an exam or test won’t get you extra credit…
(via RedEye Puzzler)
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