Collaborate Disseminate
Generally when assuming a chaotic (i.e. random) system like an undirected graph, we assume that if we start coloring these (i.e. assign values) with two colors no real pattern emerges. …read more Continue reading Ramsey Numbers and the Appearance of Order in Random Numbers
How do you keep a glass of beer cold the longest? By using science, of course. At least that’s what one researcher has turned to, finding the optimal shape of vessel that will keep a poured beer chilled for as long as possible while you drink it.Contin… Continue reading Beer science: This popular glass keeps your brew coldest, says physics
Along with Schrödinger’s Cat, the Infinite Monkeys Theorem is one of the most famous thought experiments. A new study, with tongue firmly in cheek, has calculated that you might be waiting seven googol years for your Shakespeare.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Monkeys would take 7 universe lifespans to type works of Shakespeare
The world’s largest prime number has been discovered, but we can’t show it because it’s so large it would take up 21 standard-sized novels to turn into text. Called M136279841, its shorthand version is 2136,279,841-1. That comes to 41,024,320 digits.Co… Continue reading World’s largest prime number discovered – and it’s a doozy
So far, food for astronauts hasn’t exactly been haute cuisine. Freeze-dried cereal cubes, squeezable tubes filled with what amounts to baby food, and meals reconstituted with water from a fuel …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: October 13, 2024
Ah, tiles. You can get square ones, and do a grid, or you can get fancier shapes and do something altogether more complex. By and large though, whatever pattern you …read more Continue reading Print Yourself Penrose Wave Tiles As An Excellent Conversation Starter
Less than a year ago we told you about the Tiroler, a titanium ring that’s a rather clever alternative to the boring ol’ tape measure. Well, its makers are back with a new take on the concept, which also performs calculations.Continue ReadingCategory: … Continue reading Clever titanium gadget uses concentric rings to measure, add and multiply
If you’re like us, you’ve studied the mathematician [Euler], but all you really remember is that you pronounce his name like “oiler” and not much else. [Welch Labs], on the …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: How Can We Leverage Tech for Education?
Logarithms are everywhere in mathematics and derived fields, but we rarely think about how trigonometric functions, exponentials, square roots and others are calculated after we punch the numbers into a …read more Continue reading Manually Computing Logarithms to Grok Calculators
We’ve seen many graphical and animated explainers for the Fourier series. We suppose it is because it is so much fun to create the little moving pictures, and, as a …read more Continue reading Fourier, the Animated Series