For Rubix’s 23 is the New 25

Tomas Rokicki is at it again! If you recall, in March I wrote about his latest revelation that all Rubik’s Cube are solvable in 25 moves. Like any good mathematician and computer enthusiast, when in doubt, throw more hardware at the problem. Using the same algorithm as before with a Quad Intel Core 2 and [...]

All Rubik’s cube variations solvable in 25 moves

The childhood toy, the Rubik’s cube, has been proven to be solvable from any initial configuration set in 25 moves, one less than the 26 proven last year by a group at Northeastern University. Tomas Rokicki, a mathematician by school, uses a rather nifty piece of computer science. Rokicki’s proof is a neat piece of [...]

Pi Day 2008

With the use of computers, Pi has been calculated to over 1 trillion digits past the decimal. Pi is an irrational number meaning it will continue infinitely without repeating. The symbol for pi was first used in 1706 by William Jones, but was popular after it was adopted by the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler in [...]

I got your number

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I’d just like to say that deep down I’m a math nerd, which is why What’s Special About This Number? allowed me to geek out. What it amounts to is nearly every number from 0 to 9999 and its appropriate mathematical stereotype. Have a look!

Bonus points if you can fill in the missing numbers.