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Simon wanted to make an outside video this afternoon, about what he’s been thinking of a lot lately – continued fractions. In the video below, he looks for curious number … Continue reading Very irrational numbers expressed as their continued fractions
Simon has been watching a lot of Mathologer’s videos lately, mainly about Euler’s Number (e) and Pi. He is fascinated by the proofs Mathologer presented of why each number is … Continue reading The irrationality of Pi and e
Looks like someone’s been studying a variety of bases…
Simon what is this, what are you making? – I was posh enough to make the tables of multiplications in base 12!
We are watching a Netflix series as Simon comes up to me and says: Mom, give me an odd number! I go, “All right, ahh, 13!” – He starts scribbling … Continue reading Pythagorean triples as a grid
Simon got these from the Scam School channel. I first only got a strip paper with a sequence of green sticks written on it, separated by comas. Simon did tell … Continue reading A quiz full of fun tricks
The above formula allows you to take any number (n) and get it back as a result of many calculations. Simon remembered we had read about it (something like a … Continue reading Recursive Math Tricks
The fertility formula, to predict the population the following year: A fake number (called “Wau”) to imagine infinity (via Numberphile): Drawing a square root of 5 (via James Grime): Pebbling … Continue reading A new tour of Simon’s sketch book
Simon’s little textbook on how to bisect and “n-sect” a line, that he wrote himself:
This is a Japanese version of the famous River Crossings Puzzle that Simon learned from the Scam School channel (yes, our little programming and math nerd actually watches Scam School, … Continue reading River Crossings Puzzle
Simon shows how to draw a segment that is Phi times longer than a unit segment. He learned from a video by James Grime how to draw the square root … Continue reading How to draw the Golden Ratio (Phi)
Geeks out of the box 