A Problem Squared

#️⃣ What’s the best way to explain the number e to an 8-year-old?

💗 How early in a relationship should you reveal that you’re a bit weird?

🤧 And there’s some any other blow-your-nose-ness

Head to our socials to see The Beautiful Old Calculator and The World’s Tallest Comedian.

Matt is bringing An Evening of Unnecessary Detail to New York! The Bell House, Brooklyn on Sunday 12th July. Tickets can be found here: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/300064B84CCCF567

Matt has extended his tour - and he’s filming the show in London in October - all the dates, venues and tickets can be found here: http://standupmaths.com/shows 

Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard!

If you’re already 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.

🍝 Why do we put salt in pasta water?

👾 Can you put bespoke characters in to a QR Code?

🌼And Spring Has Sprung (in the UK) so there’s some Any Other Bloomsness

Head to our socials to see some frankly-very-silly-but-fully-operational QR Codes.

Boiling and Freezing Points of Pure and Salty Water https://van.physics.illinois.edu/ask/listing/1457

Matt has extended his tour - and filming the show in London in October - all the dates, venues and tickets can be found here: http://standupmaths.com/shows 

Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard!

If you’re already 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.

🤘To mark the May Birthday of Dwayne 'The' 'Tooth Fairy' 'Rock' Johnson, Episode 134 is a Tooth and Rock Special!

🪨 Matt answers your rock-based queries and shares a Salt of the Perth update

🦷 Bec and Dentist Sophie answer your tooth-based queries and shares an Adult Tooth Fairy update

Head to our socials to look at some incredibly detailed Salt of the Perth imagery.

And relatedly…

Lead Explained:

https://www.scottishwater.co.uk/-/media/ScottishWater/Document-Hub/Factsheets-and-Leaflets/Factsheets/100620SWFactSheet72020v5web.pdf

Thallium in Salt Substitutes: A Possible Health Hazard:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0013935177900433

And here’s Matt’s Moving Mountains sources:

https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption

https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/courses/eosc350/content/foundations/properties/density.htm

Matt has extended his tour - and filming the show in London in October - all the dates, venues and tickets can be found here:

http://standupmaths.com/shows 

Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard!

If you’re already 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.

🥣 What percentage of a box of Weet-Bix is wheat again?

🥚 What shape is an egg? 

💬 What’s the most efficient way to write your name on a Pop-it Fidget Toy?

👎 And would you like some AOB? We won’t take no for an answer

Head to our socials to see all the Weet-Bix Pix, lots of names efficiently spelt out on a Pop-It Fidget Toy, lots of Girl Scout cookies, and a sheep being sheared by a robot…

The Sheep’s Back Museum, Naracoorte

https://thesheepsbackmuseum.org.au/

Creation: Between Art and Mathematics Exhibition in Paris: https://www.ihp.fr/en/news-science-and-society/creation-between-art-and-mathematics

Laura Taalman’s Granny Life Crochet:

https://www.grannylifecrochet.com/ 

Get your own Egg-Shaped Spinning Top:

https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/phitop 

Eve’s beautiful cross-stitch:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DWY-_qzivz6/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D

Matt has extended his tour - and filming the show in London in October - all the dates, venues and tickets can be found here:

http://standupmaths.com/shows 

And there is a Kickstarter to fund production of the filmed show, which you can get involved with here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/standupmaths/getting-triggy-with-it

Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard!

If you’re already 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.

🔠 Are there any English words containing four letters in alphabetical order?

🥣 What percentage of a box of weet-bix is wheat?

🎪 And there is some any other bah-bah-bahbahbahbah-buh-buh-business

Head to our socials to see Bec’s post-show photos and videos from her Adelaide run including Morgan and Morgan's mum’s tooth, Scott and the 6-7 shirt and Karn and his incredible APS Flipchart.  You’ll also find Matt’s list of all the 4-letters-alphabetised words and one of the many bridges.

Matt has extended his tour - and filming the show in London in October - all the dates, venues and tickets can be found here:

http://standupmaths.com/shows 

Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard!

If you’re already 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.

👋 When microwaving food, should you place it in the centre, or off to the side?

📐 Does the longest diagonal in a 1m sided cube in 4D square equal root 4? 

🐨 And there’s some Bonus Other Business.

Head to our socials to see Bec’s Photographic Exhibition of Australian Wildlife, Cubie the Moon Rover, Bec’s Poppadom Experiment,  Matt’s Pythagorean Whiteboard Action, and the first glimpse of the most confusing game of Connect 4 ever to be played. A surprisingly visual audio podcast… so it’s all happening over on BlueSky / Twitter / Instagram

Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard!

If you’re already 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.

🌈 Is it true that "No Two Packs Of Skittles Are The Same?”

🤧 Why a cold called cold?

🤫 And there’s some ASMROB

Head to our socials to see Matt’s Mission Patches, Matt’s Calculator, and the Skittles Combinatorics!

The Liberation Laser Software by Seb Lee-Delisle

https://liberationlaser.com/ 

The Skittle Maths by Clare Wallace

https://www.clarewallace.co.uk/skittles

And some Norfolk Punch, if you’re so inclined

https://www.norfolkpunch.com/ 

If you’d like to see Matt on tour, all the dates, venues and tickets can be found here:

http://standupmaths.com/shows 

Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard!

If you’re already 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.

🛫 How many people are flying in the air at any given moment?

⚖️ What weighs a pound and costs a pound?

🏈 And there’s some Any Other (Foot)Ballness

Head to our socials to see Bec’s glasses 🤓Pat Patriot 🇺🇲and our Pound for Pound items!

Here is a link to the book Flying With Confidence (which helped Producer Laura with her fear of flying and also helped her answer the problem correctly!)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/415543/flying-with-confidence-by-patricia-furness-smith-and-captain-steve-allright/9780091947859

They Did The Math, They Did The Monster Math on Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/ 

https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemonstermath/

Flight Radar 24: https://www.flightradar24.com/

If you’d like to see Bec at the Adelaide Fringe, you can get tickets here: https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/bec-hill-creates-the-perfect-show-work-in-progress-af2026 

And if you’d like to see Matt on tour, all the dates, venues and tickets can be found here: http://standupmaths.com/shows 

Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard! If you’re already 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.

❓ Have you sent in a question for our AMA episode?

❔ Have Matt and Bec answered it in this AMA episode?

⁉️ Here are your AMA questions, answered!

We’ll be back solving your problems as normal in Episode 129!

If you’d like to see Bec at the Adelaide Fringe in March, you can get tickets here: https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/bec-hill-creates-the-perfect-show-work-in-progress-af2026 

And if you’d like to see Matt on tour, all the dates, venues and tickets can be found here: http://standupmaths.com/shows 

Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard!

If you’re already 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.

🫘 Can we come up with some fun names for common pantry items?

🔢 What's the smallest number that has never been written down in human history?

🧂 And there’s a sprinkling of Any Other Business.

Numberphile’s take on a number NOBODY has thought of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdZrxkix9Mk

Every Time "67" Has Been Said on Numberphile, if you dare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlJMJfPPnVA

Googolplex Written Out: http://www.googolplexwrittenout.com/

If you’d like to see Bec at the Adelaide Fringe in March, you can get tickets here: https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/bec-hill-creates-the-perfect-show-work-in-progress-af2026 

And if you’d like to see Matt on tour, all the dates, venues and tickets can be found here: http://standupmaths.com/shows 

Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard! If you’re already 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.