Tags » maths

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  “Fixing” the rules of division

  If we want to redefine how division works, Ruby is happy to oblige.

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  The maths cross-stitch that hangs behind me

  When I’m on video calls, my backdrop has some maths-related art that I helped to make.

• Picking perfect planks with Python

  How do you pick the right combination of planks to lay a wooden floor? Python and itertools to the rescue!

• Maths is about facing ambiguity, not avoiding it

  School tells us that “Maths always has one right answer!”, which is a convenient but unhelpful lie.

• Finding divisors of a number with Python

  Using unique prime factorisations and itertools to find all the divisors of a number.

• Tiling the plane with Pillow

  Using the Python Imaging Library to draw regular tilings of squares, triangles and hexagons.

• Some exam advice

  Some advice for students sitting technical exams

• Darwin, pancakes and birthdays

  Looking at whether Darwin ever missed out on birthday cake for pancakes

• Zero

  An essay about the number zero that I wrote for school.