Playing the Fibonacci Sequence on the Piano
Inspired by a Numberphile video, where Simon learned the technique to express the Fibonacci sequence in musical notes.
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How to Square a Circle
Inspired by yet another Numberphile video, Simon is explaining why it’s impossible to turn a circle into a square with the same area using only the tools that the ancient … Continue reading How to Square a Circle
Pythagorean Triples
Inspired by the 3Blue1Brown video “All possible Pythagorean Triples visualized”. Simon has recently learned about different ways to find Pythagorean Triples, using different formulas (involving complex numbers and not). His … Continue reading Pythagorean Triples
Koch Snowflake
His sister an grandma visiting from snowy Russia making paper snowflakes inspired Simon… Right is Simon’s sister’s snowflake, left is Simon’s:
Snakes and Ladders in p5.js
Simon built this Snakes and Ladders game on January 27 based on Daniel Shiffman’s live stream (from January 26), adding some extra features of his own. The game is online … Continue reading Snakes and Ladders in p5.js
Random Number Generator
Programmed a random number generator to hep him with a card trick. Inspired by Numberphile:
Squared Square Puzzle
Simon came up with an idea to make a puzzle of “squared squares”, a concept he learned via Numberphile. One square of 112 by 112 cm (the smallest possible of … Continue reading Squared Square Puzzle
Live Stream #7. Chapter 3 of Living Code: Random Numbers.
Simon’s 7th live stream on Thursday went great. He has about 230 subscribers at the moment, so there were people watching and posting encouraging comments in the chat. In the … Continue reading Live Stream #7. Chapter 3 of Living Code: Random Numbers.
Infinite sum formulas
Simon writes: Sorry the video was cut off, we’ve recorded this video from our phone, but the phone ran out of memory. Actually, if -1/4 = 3S, can you … Continue reading Infinite sum formulas
The things that don’t converge anywhere totally blow my mind!
In the video below, Simon is writing a sequence for pi (π), in which the sum of all the terms results in pi. Unfortunately, he got the formula that he … Continue reading The things that don’t converge anywhere totally blow my mind!
Simon trying to prove why perfect numbers are always even
Simon has been studying Mersenne Primes (2^n – 1) and their relation to perfect numbers via the Numberphile channel and heard Matt Parker say that no one has proved that … Continue reading Simon trying to prove why perfect numbers are always even
Geeks out of the box 