Odds and Evenings

The boys return to think about the structure of a quiz show round, they learn how to queue effectively and they investigate the best tunings for guitars.

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Queuing Blog

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The boys are in the same room, and they have a guest! They talk about an awful tennis tournament mixup, a teeny tiny card game and the primest day of the year.

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Some divisbility criteria

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Special Guest: Matthew Scroggs.

The boys sit down with an infinite box of resistors, worry just how diverse their business is and think through the peculiar physics of balloons.

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The XKCD Resistor Problem we Mention

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Here's something a little different. Over at Aperiodical they are running the Big Internet Math Off 2019, where 16 mathematicians present pitches to compete in a tournament. We were very pleased to be nominated to take part. For this round we thought we'd do what we do best, albeit in smaller, snack sized portion.

We are up against Grant Sanderson of 3Blue1Brown which is a channel that we both love. You can find both of our pitches here, where if you like what you hear we would very much appreciate your support by voting for Alaric.

Most importantly, here is the file that my student Ed Ceney created so you can try to come up with the best strategy yourself.

The paper outlining the original experiment can be found here.

Normal episodes will resume shortly.

The boys are back for season two! They try ramping Pascal's Triangle up a couple of dimensions, consider the physics of how we control volume and attempt to help out someone with a fishy problem.

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Cuboctohedron Stacking

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The boys help organise a rugby training scheme, set robots upon an infinite hotel and discover some lovely patterns in the probability of Snakes and Ladders.

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Articles written by Alaric on Langton's:

Busy Beaver on Wikipedia

Maths Jam (that you should totally be attending)

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The boys partake unto an unwavering curiousity as to who is friends with whom. Infinite-dimensional animals are discussed, and they ponder the potentially undue rewards of chess pros.

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Scale by Geoffrey West

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The boys find themselves on the wrong side of the mathematical orthodoxy, rejecting the concepts of distance and angles, before immediately forgetting about that and using distances and angles to solve a problem.

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Introduction to Rational Geometry Overview by Norman Wildberger

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Here's a copy of the puzzle that Alaric wrote for the conference: Chyptic Chossword

The boys play games, join a secret circle and put up the Christmas lights :)

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Wythoff's Game on Wikipedia

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The boys celebrate a year of the podcast, try to get a hold on some of the weirder polygonal numbers and debrief after big maths jam.

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Catriona Shearer's Geometry Puzzles on Twitter

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