A Problem Squared

115 = Jolly Good Euphemising and Hollywood Sign Sizing


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🍆 What’s the “female equivalent” of phallic?

What’s the font size of the Hollywood sign?

🩈 And we’re always open for AOBusiness


Thanks to our excellent experts appearing in voicenote form - Dr Ben Whittle, Chella Quint OBE, and Linus Boman.


Daan’s paper in the American Journal of Archaeology which cites this very podcast: doi.org/10.1086/735650 


The world’s largest enlarged letter: https://www.pleasedonotbend.co.uk/categories/world-record


If you’re heading to the Edinburgh Fringe, you can get tickets to see Bec here: https://tickets.gildedballoon.co.uk/event/14:5884/

And you can get tickets see to Matt here: https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/getting-triggy-it-matt-parker-does-maths


Here’s how to get involved with Matt’s Moon Pi Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/standupmaths 

And here’s how to volunteer for Calculate Pi By Hand with Matt: https://forms.gle/w44THpNJ3jWUPqHy6


If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!  


If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps. 


Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky,Twitter,Instagram, and on Discord.

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