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Gausahedron: Your d20 is broken because it is too random

June 29, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

John-David Anderson, aka JD, and the team think your d20 might be too chaotic. Is that the same as being too random?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice, Gausahedron, kickstarters, maths

Does this algorithm know your taste in board games better than you?

June 9, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tell Dirk what games you have and the algorithm will compare them to the list of features and qualities associated with them to work out what they have in common, and therefore what sort of games you like.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board game crate, board games, maths, shops

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 […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: cards, magic the gathering, maths

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. That’s through the special wrapping paper provided by Think Geek. Behold it’s green […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: maths, 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? Yes, we can increase it by elite. In other words; leet or 1337. What is 1337% of Pi? Everything. That’s […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Douglas Adams, maths, pi day

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.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: google, maths

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? Thank god I noticed first.) And I suspect the problem is that he describes this as a Venn diagram. It certainly looks like a […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: doctor who, maths

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. If you want to avoid thinking about the logic presented […]

Filed Under: Books, TV Tagged With: game of thrones, George R. R. Martin, maths

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. They don’t mean the waves that break […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: maths, rpg ideas, science

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 […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: batman, maths

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