A Problem Squared

What's the most cunning way to move furniture on your own?

Thoughtful ideas for Christmas presents

Answers to the riddle of Pudding's Wheel, including a brilliant piece of maths by a listener.

Recipe for microwave fudge:
3 cups of milk or dark chocolate bits (roughly 500g)
1 tin condensed milk
1/4 cup of butter
Step 1. Microwave all ingredients for 3-5mins, stopping to stir occasionally.
Step 2. Grease or line a deep tray/dish with baking paper and pour in the mix.
Step 3. Refrigerate.
Step 4. Once firm, cut into squares.
(Note from Bec: in Step 2, I like to dust the baking paper with cacao powder and then dust the squares again once cut in Step 4. It helps stop them from immediately melting back into each other. You can also add nuts and dried fruit or spices if you want to get experimental. Make sure you store this in the fridge whenever possible, as it has a low melting point!)

Pudding's instagram: instagram.com/hamsterpud

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Here's the wikipedia page we used to make sense of shark teeth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_tooth#/media/File:How_to_count_shark_teeth.png

The Weaire-Phelan structure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaire%E2%80%93Phelan_structure

What a truncated octahedron looks like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated_octahedron

And a spinning one! 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Truncatedoctahedron.gif

MATT'S CALCULATIONS
A 140mm × 60mm × 46mm block of cheese has a volume of 386.4 cm^3 and a surface area of 352 cm^2. To give a 41% reduction the original needs to have the same volume of cheese but an area of 596.6 cm^2.

Matt assumed there are 4,200,000 current infections and each person has 400,000 virus particles per mL across 2L of fluid. If the SARS-CoV-2 particle has a diameter of 150nm and stacks like spheres with 74% efficiency: those 3,360,000,000,000,000 current virus particles would fill only 8mL, aka "about a teaspoon".

How long is a year of A Problem Squared podcasts?

What's the qualification for a room being a room?

Is the famous Ferrero Rocher advert mathematically possible?

You can visit the Crafts Council campaign here: https://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/support-us/appeals-and-projects/lets-craft-packs-children

Delve into luxury with the original Ferrero Rocher ad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P-nZZkQqTc

The best-known packings of equal circles in a circle http://hydra.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/packing/cci/d1.html

Correction: Bec's episode of Jonathan Ross's Comedy Club aired on 19th September (Series 1 Episode 2)

- How can you keep cool when there's no air conditioning?

- What's the best thing to do with a spare room? (If you're lucky enough to have one, that is.)

- How much would the Big Macadamia Nut be worth if it was an actual nut?

- Why are typewriters mysterious?

Matt's long-awaited topography video, inspired by a problem in the show, is here at last! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtKhbbcc1Rc

You can see the typewriter patent here: https://patents.google.com/patent/US207559A/en

And for Bec's 5KTS t-shirt, head here: www.bechillcomedian.com/5kts/square

- Could pennies make a girlfriend for the Statue of Liberty?
- What's the optimum burger size for your mouth?
- Where is Matt's topography video?

Here's Bec's burger video analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAc2ukZVtdk

And for Bec's 5KTS t-shirt, head here: www.bechillcomedian.com/5kts/square

- Why are kitchen counters one-size-fits-all?
- Are the recorded surface areas of countries 3D?
- Why don't plastic things dry in the dishwasher?

Special thanks to:
Gareth and Kiruna (@garethandkiruna on TikTok and PIrate & Parrot TV on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHX3-ZTmi60fYtcnO4VOPSQ)
Ed Warner from Motionspot (https://www.motionspot.co.uk/, www.fineandable.co.uk and @themotionspot on social media)

Check out www.podcastsincolor.com for an exhaustive and excellent list of podcast recommendations.

And for Bec's 5KTS t-shirt, head here: www.bechillcomedian.com/5kts/square

- What is the biggest big thing?
- Is the lottery a good retirement plan?
- Update on the £5,000 t-shirt.
- The taster data has popped.

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This is the bear with very long legs. Very long. Legs.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/bradesposito/people-are-losing-it-over-this-giant-teddy-bear-that-just

Tallest Filing Cabinet on Earth
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/world-s-tallest-filing-cabinet

The difference between Financial Advice and Financial Guidance.
https://www.fca.org.uk/consumers/understanding-advice-guidance-investments

Get your own free financial guidance from here:
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/debt-and-money/getting-financial-advice/

Bec's £5000 T-SHIRT
http://www.bechillcomedian.com/shop

Here's Mr Squiggle, he's lots of fun for everyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdmsE-Bff7k

Check out our instagram for photos.
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Submit your data for our toaster investigation.
http://bit.ly/APS_toasterdata

Mike Hill wrote up his calculations as an official report.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m0njel6x5xcg0z5/T-Shirt%20Quest.docx?dl=0

Energy Scavengers: Static Electricity Could Power the World
https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/energy-scavengers-static-electricity-could-power-the-world

International Electrotechnical Commission standards 60065
https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/494

Limmy's channel.
https://www.youtube.com/user/LimmyDotComBlog/

Limmys Show: Whats heavier a kilogram of steel or a kilogram of feathers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC2oke5MFg

- What went wrong with the audio of episode 003?
- The best place to put a backpack on a crowded train.
- How many Boeing 737s will fit?
- Making a perfect guest bedroom.
- Bonus: Bec has feedback on Matt's rice calculation

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Listen to the BROKEN version of episode 003 and see how you hear Bec!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kvdbytyu1jazr15/A%20Problem%20Squared%20Episode%20003%20BROKEN.mp3?dl=0

Wikipedia page on surround sound Matrix Decoding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_decoder

Watch Bec's flip-chart of "Non Je Ne Regrette Rien" by Edith Piaf.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTH9MKiYvM0

This is the audio file of Non Je Ne Regrette Rien that Bec sometimes has problems with.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zfh910uve85vdvk/Edith%20Piaf%20-%20Non%2C%20Je%20ne%20regrette%20rien.mp3?dl=0

There are only 10,575 Boeing 737s which have been made and delivered.
http://active.boeing.com/commercial/orders/displaystandardreport.cfm?cboCurrentModel=737&optReportType=AllModels&cboAllModel=737&ViewReportF=View+Report

Check out our instagram for photos of the 'Futuristic Garden' Bec gave Matt for their spare room.
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- Why is this episode so late?
- What to take when in hospital quarantine?
- Tips for working at home from two pros.
- Does the exponential maths of viral memes check out?

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