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Month: June 2016

Other mathematics

Divisibility Tests

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

Most people are aware of two or three basic tests for divisibility by a prime number: A number n is divisible by 2 iff it ends in an even number (0, 2, 4, 6, or...

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Polygons as Functions

Posted on June 26, 2016 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

A recent comment from a colleague got me thinking about describing polygons using functions. His intent was that polygons (and all closed shapes) can be describ...

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Indefinite vs infinite

Posted on June 24, 2016 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

I have borrowed from a colleague a copy of G. A. Wentworth’s Plane and Solid Geometry, copyright 1899 and published 1902 by The Athenæum Press of Boston. ...

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Rationals except Zero

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

Here’s a quick one: All rational numbers except 0 can be expressed as \[(-1)^s \Pi p_i^{n_i}\] where \(s \in \{0, 1\}\), \(p_i\) is a prime number, and \(...

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Defining a Line

Posted on June 19, 2016 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

The version of Geometry most widely taught in high schools in the United States is an amalgam of the two most basic fields of geometry: Synthetic and analytic. ...

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claustrophobia

Posted on June 11, 2016 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

i am overwhelmed by the wall by the river by the stream of gogogodododostopstopstopnownownow until i am left breathless suffocated by another day of doing nothi...

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But is it math?

Posted on June 11, 2016 by Clio Corvid / 2 Comments

It is a persistently popular thing to do on social media to post challenges like this one. I used to be of a mind to be outraged at the abuse of the equal sign:...

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