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Approval versus Disfavor

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Within 500 words: THE HARD ANALYSIS Approval Voting is the best remedy to the most deeply troubling problem facing democracy on our planet. Throughout human history, only one family of voting methods
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Angle "The Giant"

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Another corrected answer on Brilliant.org. Angles DAB and BCD are very acute as their opposing side (BD) is the smallest (2). BDC is similarly acute, opposite the shorter of sides length 6 or 5 (BC).
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Folding Polygons into Pyramids 2

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Some corrections to a problem result in lengthy, ongoing discussions. On Brilliant.org, my original correction still raises the question "are we missing yet more 'smart' answers?" The Original
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isPrime

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I've been trying my hand at more little programming snippets to help my math. Many I've written in Python, some in Linux 'bash' scripts (Bourne Again SHell). Python isPrime (I normally comment my
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Folding Polygons into Pyramids

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When I find incorrect answers in Brilliant.org, which is way more often than it should be for only one month of activity, I try to report the problem. Example: Which of the following regular polygons
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Math Limerick

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A dozen, a gross, and a score plus three times the square root of four divided by seven plus five times eleven is nine squared and not a bit more \( \frac{12+144+20+3\sqrt{4}}{7}+5\times11=9^2+0
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