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By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 30, 2020May 15, 2021

The Twelve Days of Christmas: How many Presents in Total?

I was looking up the lyrics of The Twelve Days of Christmas song (you know, the one that goes “On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to … Continue reading The Twelve Days of Christmas: How many Presents in Total?

Categories: Geometry Joys, Math and Computer Science Everywhere, Math Riddles, Math Tricks, Murderous Maths, Notes on everyday life, Simon teaching, Simon's sketch bookTags: 12 Days of Christmas, Christmas time, Gauss trick, homeschooling, math, self-directed learning, tetrahedral numbers, triangular numbers
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on October 2, 2020October 2, 2020

Squangular numbers

Simon has created a Python program that looks for “squangular” numbers. 36 is both a square number (6×6 square of things makes 36 things) and a triangular number (8×8 triangle … Continue reading Squangular numbers

Categories: Coding, Experiments, Geometry Joys, Math and Computer Science Everywhere, Milestones, Murderous Maths, Python, Simon's Own Code, Simon's sketch bookTags: homeschooling, math, Python, Repl.it, squangular, square numbers, triangular numbers

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