I recently came accross an instagram post about a chimpanzee who was completing a research task at the Kyoto University. I wondered if I could perform aswell as the chimp. I have recreated the scale and timing of the game for this post below. Hit the reset button, quickly memorize the number pattern and then …
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Prime Reciprocals, Repetends and Repunits
I was recently watching a numberphile video on YouTube. Matt Parker explores a volume of work by William Shanks. Shanks calclulated the digit length of the repetend for the reciprocals of thousands of prime numbers. His work was carried out by hand in the mid to late 1800s. A number is called prime if it …
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Elegant Hook
I attended Hoover Middle School during the mid 80s and remember my first experience instructing a computer to do something. My school was located in a fairly affluent area of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Albuquerque is the home of Sandia National Laboratories and the public education system there seemed to benefit by having quality technology and …
Recursive Radix Calculations
My daughter and I share a special number – 823. We text it to eachother when the clock says 8:23 or leave a little note with it there. We also share other instances of the number that we come accross. I sent these photos to her recently: It’s a nice way to let each other …