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What is the best way to shuffle a pack of cards?

March 29, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Show me the math – in details I can understand. In this video the Numberphile gets into the maths and shuffling tactics. You’ll know three types of shuffling of cards as shown here; one type takes 7 shuffles, the other 10,000 and the other needs 60 seconds of your attention before the deck is suitably random.…

Pi Day wrap up

March 14, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Today was Pi Day. It’s an important ritual for math geeks, a day in which we dance around a circle, invoke powerful angles and expand our knowledge by degrees. There’s one way we can wrap up at the end of Pi Day.…

One crazy formula for Pi Day: 1337% of Pi is Everything

March 14, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Today is Pi Day. It’s March the 14th. You might write that as 3.14. Pi. As you know, Pi is an impressive value. It enables all sorts of mathematical wizardy. Can we make it better?…

The pus filled heart of Mordor hides in Google

February 15, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It's no longer Valentine's Day. It's now safe to concern ourselves with corrupt hearts; green and yellow stains on a pus filled bio-engine of despair. This heart can be found on Google.

Which Doctors encountered who?

September 29, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This is a very pretty diagram from A Little Further out of the Way. The blogger notes; UPDATE (well, I messed that up, didn’t I? Let’s just ignore that, shall we?…

The deadly maths of Game of Thrones

July 17, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This video is fairly safe for spoilers for those people who’ve been watching the Game of Thrones TV series. In fairness, it’s pretty safe for spoilers for most people – although it begins by making the point that people die in The Game of Thrones.…

Crazy idea? Mathematical waves as magic?

June 22, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

A few roleplaying games lean heavily on the idea that magic is either a special language or mathematical incantations that tap into the heatbeat of the world. This video from the New Scientist highlights those equations that rule the world with an almost exclusive focus on understanding waves.…

Batman logo – by the numbers

July 31, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This is a good way to get kids to learn. You can introduce a stepwise equation, with Cartesian coordinates in order to draw out a rather famous and superheroic logo. I call it “Batman” maths and is far more clever than being able to make your calculate say “hello” or “boobs” by typing in a few numbers and then turning it upside down.…

Happy Tau Day – 6.28 to you

June 28, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Today is Tau Day. You need to think of the American way of putting the month before the date to get 6.28.2011 before that really makes sense. Tau Day isn’t just a “Hey!…

Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 teaser is simulation p0rn

July 21, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Lagoa Technologies have produced software that’s really good a simulation. No, wait, come back! This gets good really quickly. What we have here are some fantastic visual effects – effects where you can appreciate the physics and maths in the engine.…

What is the best way to shuffle a pack of cards?

Pi Day wrap up

One crazy formula for Pi Day: 1337% of Pi is Everything

The pus filled heart of Mordor hides in Google

Which Doctors encountered who?

The deadly maths of Game of Thrones

Crazy idea? Mathematical waves as magic?

Batman logo – by the numbers

Happy Tau Day – 6.28 to you

Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 teaser is simulation p0rn

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