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Siobhan Roberts' article yesterday in the New York Times was a real celebra… | |
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First, @ianh for the cover picture, showing ways to chop a square into 8 simila… | |
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Then me, for coming up with this problem. Then David Eppstein - @11011110 her… | |
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Then @narain, for his initial attack on the problem. Then @ianh, who by the en… | |
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@johncarlosbaez I believe his account is @11011110 | |
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@bstacey @11011110 - so THAT'S who that string of digits is! | |
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@johncarlosbaez Hah, this is so cool! Great that the NYT picked this up, I'… | |
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Then we get to @Lisanne's contribution. Siobhan Roberts discussed with me… | |
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Then David Eppstein, aka @11011110, returns with a remark on 'guillotine pa… | |
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So, quite a big bunch of us get mentioned in this great article! I miss those… | |
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@johncarlosbaez For readers: here's the link to the piece https://www.nytim… | |
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@nev - thanks, I'll link to those! | |
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@johncarlosbaez @nev I think Mathstodon like all of Mastodon had a big bloom of… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @nev how about arbitrary parallelepipeds in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) , … | |
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@dimpase - whew, that's a hard one. I know there's a huge world of alg… | |
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@mattmcirvin - I was looking at your stuff about base 3/2. If you have some co… | |
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@johncarlosbaez Basically none of that is original to me except for the messing… | |
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@johncarlosbaez It was fun following the progression of this topic from the fir… | |
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@wgrover - hello! We apparently need social media to meet each other. | |
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@johncarlosbaez @bstacey If you convert binary to hex you get my initials | |
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@johncarlosbaez @Danpiker Do you have a reference for the 11 ways with 4 rectan… | |
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@EtienneJacques @Danpiker - there's a list of the 11 ways with lots of link… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @nev Here's a problem I've been thinking on and off abo… | |
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@johncarlosbaez I have a sketch of a proof that the natural density of the numb… | |
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@kdgoodenough - so you're conjecturing that there are infinitely many integ… | |
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@johncarlosbaez That's right! I forgot to include a counterexample --- the … | |
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@johncarlosbaez Sketch that n does not divide \[O(C_n)\] for a set of numbers … | |
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@johncarlosbaez The author also wrote some cool books, one on Conway, and one o… | |
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@GerardWestendorp - "King of Infinite Space"? | |
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@johncarlosbaez Right, and the one on Conway is "Genius at Play". It … |