Wrong, but Useful - Episode 27 - Flying Colours Maths

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In this month's thrilling instalment of the nation's #1 maths podcast1 , @reflectivemaths and I discuss...

The recent leap second
The number of the podcast, 999,999,999,998,999,999,999,999.
Farey sequences - introducing the mediant of two fractions
A couple of agreeable sequences, via @pickover
The number of squares of any size on a chessboard
The envelopes game
Callback to traffic studies: visualising shockwaves
A simple puzzle in the New York Time
Last episode's puzzle answer: 53 (we think)
Puzzle: In a Wimbledon tennis match that goes to five sets, the number of games one of the players wins in each set forms an arithmetic series. Curiously, both players won the same number of games. Who won the match? (A tie-break counts as a game.) I promised the economists and cheats a link to the answer
Our current reading: both of us have @standupmaths's Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension. Colin is reading The Numbers Game and recently finished Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure.

Colin

Colin is a Weymouth maths tutor, author of several Maths For Dummies books and A-level maths guides. He started Flying Colours Maths in 2008. He lives with an espresso pot and nothing to prove.

8 comments on “Wrong, but Useful — Episode 27”

notonlyahatrack
July 13, 2015 at 10:53 am

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MathbloggingAll
July 13, 2015 at 4:59 pm

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WrongButUseful
July 13, 2015 at 8:26 pm

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johanges
July 13, 2015 at 8:27 pm

RT @notonlyahatrack: New @WrongButUseful alert!
RT @icecolbeveridge: [FCM] Wrong, but Useful — Episode 27: http://t.co/9wDJpIrGNO

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Mathistopheles
July 14, 2015 at 11:16 am

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icecolbeveridge
July 14, 2015 at 11:52 am

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reflectivemaths
July 15, 2015 at 9:00 pm

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reflectivemaths
July 15, 2015 at 9:02 pm

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