Benford’s Law is a theory of leading digits in numerical data sets. Whilst one might think that the frequency of the leading digit would be equally distributed across the nine digits each with approximately 11% [more…]
The golden ratio is well known and is associated with the Fibonacci sequence of numbers. (phi) is the positive root of the quadratic equation . The exact value is given by Its continued [more…]
A Sophie Germain prime is a prime number such that is also a prime number. That is, , where and are both prime. For example, . The sequence begins Sophie Germain () explored these primes [more…]
Euclid’s Elements, Book IX, Proposition 20. Theorem : Prime numbers are more than any assigned multitude of prime numbers. That is, there are infinitely many primes. Proof : Suppose that there are primes : Let [more…]
Read as : the limit, as approaches infinity, of subfactorial divided by factorial is equal to divided by which approximates to , where is Euler’s number, The Hat Check Problem, as first described by Montmort [more…]
Apparently, some subset of younger people are upset and intimidated about the use of full stops in text and other messages. I am not sure what they would think about the ellipsis, … , or [more…]
In The Basel Problem we saw that Euler answered the question by showing that the sum of the reciprocals of the square numbers is equal to . That is The partial sums slowly converge to [more…]
1 litre vanilla ice cream 100g stem ginger biscuits/cookies 100g dark chocolate 125g salted caramel cream sauce You can buy salted caramel cream sauce or make your own in ten minutes. To make your own [more…]
Painted in about 1470/75, it is in the National Gallery. One of my favourite carols: Merry Christmas! OldTrout 2019
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