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mathmunch.org
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| | | | | Welcome to this week's Math Munch! What could techno rhythms, square-pieces dissections, and windshield wipershave in common? The Euclidean Algorithm! Say what? The Euclidean Algorithm is all about our good friend long division and is a great way of finding the greatest common factor of two numbers. It relies on the fact that if a... | |
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maxwelldemon.com
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| | | | | (with apologies to Virginia Wolff) A simple, classic puzzle is to give two shapes and ask if there is a way to cut one up so the pieces can be rearranged into the other. This game might seem to become silly if both shapes are the same; if we insist that the new arrangement must... | |
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cre8math.com
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| | | | | In my last post, I talked about a textbook I had written to use in a course which, among other things, introduced students to a non-Euclidean geometry -- spherical geometry. And while the primary purpose of the text was for teaching a college-level course, the actual content of the text had a different origin. As... | |
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blog.ohheybrian.com
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