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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.
"Fixing" the rules of division
If we want to redefine how division works, Ruby is happy to oblige.
Some exam advice
Some advice for students sitting technical exams
Finding divisors of a number with Python
Using unique prime factorisations and itertools to find all the divisors of a number.
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.
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!
Tiling the plane with Pillow
Using the Python Imaging Library to draw regular tilings of squares, triangles and hexagons.
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.