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When the passengers on a plane up in the sky are separately seated based on the the digits of the decimal number π—there are three empty seats between the first and second passenger, one empty seat between the second and third passenger, four empty seats between the third and fourth passenger, and so on.
by Fasters December 24, 2021
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Guesstimate how many ultra-MAGA patriots in red-pilled states who just hate being called “Trump’s Witnesses.”
by Fasters January 14, 2023
Get the Trump’s Witnesses mug.When the world’s most popular mathematical constant lured me to coin or christen no fewer than 3.14 × 10² words and phrases about her as part of a lifelong recreational math project to preach the mathematical gospel to an oft-math-anxious or semi-innumerate global community.
The “Pi Made Me Do It” sounds like a marketing slogan in the math or math education business, but its global positive impact among math educators has so far been nothing short of a miracle.
by Fasters May 29, 2023
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In the sequence III, I, lV, I, V, IX, …, with three primary line segments being used to write the number four or nine in the Roman number system, what will be the least number of line segments needed to write the first thirty-two digits of the decimal number π?
by Fasters June 25, 2022
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Math teachers and tutors ought to encourage their students to TOL, because this under-utilized or overlooked habit would help them articulate their mental processes, while allowing others to expose their faux or flawed reasoning, if any.
by Fasters June 14, 2022
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In billions of homes, it’s not uncommon for parents telling their children off that money doesn’t grow on trees, or that money is hard to come by, but for millions of authors and publishers, the opposite is true: “Money grows on trees.”
by Fasters April 26, 2023
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Since the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, a number of retired folks dabbling in the crypto ecosystem and hoping to maximize their savings have gone from zero crypto to crypto zero.
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