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Interesting tautologies
Mar 2020
Log-scaled axes
Feb 2020
PhD thesis, chapter ∞
PhD thesis, chapter 5
PhD thesis, chapter 4
PhD thesis, chapter 3
Inverting a matrix
PhD thesis, chapter 2
Jan 2020
PhD thesis, chapter 1
Gaussian elimination
Matrix multiplication
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A non-converging LaTeX document
TMiP 2019 treasure punt
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Big Internet Math-Off stickers 2019
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Proving a conjecture
Apr 2019
Harriss and other spirals
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Mathsteroids
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Is MEDUSA the new BODMAS?
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Palindromic dates
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Tube map kaleidocycles
Jul 2016
Solving the cross diagonal cover problem
Jun 2016
Braiding, pt. 2
Braiding, pt. 1
Making names in Life
May 2016
Euro 2016 stickers
Mar 2016
Proving Pythagoras' theorem
Dragon curves
The
Mathematical Games
of Martin Gardner
Jan 2016
Christmas (2015) is over
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How to kick a conversion
How much will I win on the new National Lottery?
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How OEISbot works
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Optimal Pac-Man
Tube map stellated rhombicuboctahedron
Logic bot, pt. 2
Design your own flexagon
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Tube map Platonic solids, pt. 3
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Electromagnetic Field talk
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Countdown probability, pt. 2
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New machine unfriendly £1 coin, pt. 2
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kenilworth
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ucl
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go
24 hour maths
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frobel
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dataset
fonts
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inverse matrices
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edinburgh
databet
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plastic ratio
phd
rust
probability
preconditioning
finite group
cross stitch
menace
crochet
wordle
partridge puzzle
bempp
stirling numbers
fence posts
data visualisation
pizza cutting
realhats
dates
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martin gardner
countdown
gather town
programming
machine learning
sport
hexapawn
hats
map projections
arrangement puzzles
wave scattering
finite element method
platonic solids
graph theory
video games
european cup
logic
speed
chalkdust magazine
approximation
triangles
numerical analysis
zines
game show probability
accuracy
datasaurus dozen
rhombicuboctahedron
logo
misleading statistics
fractals
noughts and crosses
flexagons
asteroids
standard deviation
matrix of minors
pokémon wordle
turtles
reddit
hyperbolic surfaces
pi approximation day
ternary
recursion
books
sobolev spaces
php
games
weather station
pascal's triangle
binary
exponential growth
crossnumbers
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news
palindromes
error bars
sorting
radio 4
squares
kings
live stream
trigonometry
sound
errors
determinants
quadrilaterals
braiding
nine men's morris
logs
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signorini conditions
graphs
golden ratio
interpolation
a gamut of games
inline code
alphabets
latex
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computational complexity
newcastle
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