Each year, the kids typically get to design (and help carve) their own pumpkins, and I sometimes get to do one for myself. This was my contribution for that year. It was inspired by this old "Foxtrot" comic by Bill Amend:
Jealous much?
Monday, October 31, 2016
Pumpkin Pi
Today, I came across one of our old Halloween pics from a couple years ago (2014 I think) that I thought I would share:
Each year, the kids typically get to design (and help carve) their own pumpkins, and I sometimes get to do one for myself. This was my contribution for that year. It was inspired by this old "Foxtrot" comic by Bill Amend:
Jealous much?
Each year, the kids typically get to design (and help carve) their own pumpkins, and I sometimes get to do one for myself. This was my contribution for that year. It was inspired by this old "Foxtrot" comic by Bill Amend:
Jealous much?
Monday, October 10, 2016
Prime Number Distributions
Here's an interesting article that was a hot topic around the dinner table:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2080613-mathematicians-shocked-to-find-pattern-in-random-prime-numbers/
Prime numbers (other than 2 and 5) must end in a 1,3,7 or 9. Over the first few hundred million prime numbers, researchers found that a prime ending in 1 is followed by another prime ending in 1 just 18.5 per cent of the time instead of a more or equal distribution of 25 per cent.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2080613-mathematicians-shocked-to-find-pattern-in-random-prime-numbers/
Prime numbers (other than 2 and 5) must end in a 1,3,7 or 9. Over the first few hundred million prime numbers, researchers found that a prime ending in 1 is followed by another prime ending in 1 just 18.5 per cent of the time instead of a more or equal distribution of 25 per cent.
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