Posts tagged: Math - Twisty's Tesseract

Approval versus Disfavor

20 May 2021 - Posted in Math by twisty

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

Angle "The Giant"

23 September 2016 - Posted in Math by twisty

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).

Folding Polygons into Pyramids 2

15 September 2016 - Posted in Math by twisty

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

isPrime

05 September 2016 - Posted in Programming by twisty

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

Folding Polygons into Pyramids

02 September 2016 - Posted in Math by twisty

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

Math Limerick

26 August 2016 - Posted in Math by twisty

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