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Puzzle Answer: Do You Know Your XABCs?

by Tom Chlebowski on April 7, 2010

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It was noted that this is first a puzzle and secondly an algebra problem, since algebra is not needed to find the answer! For all of the size and variables this expression has, [click to continue…]

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Your Body the Hotel

by Tom Chlebowski April 2, 2010 General Interest
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It can be said that you, as a human, are not one organism, but a collection of trillions of tiny organisms (cells) working in harmony. This can be said of any multicellular organism. But whether you imagine yourself as a single animal or an amazingly coordinated bunch of cells, that’s not the whole picture. You’ve [...]

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Great Lives

by Josh Salcman March 12, 2010 General Interest
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Did you know there are over 6 billion people on the planet? To get an idea of how large a number that is, imagine counting to one thousand. It would take quite a while to actually do it! Then imagine counting to one thousand one thousand times. And then imagine doing that one thousand times. [...]

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Puzzle: Time Equations

by Josh Salcman February 20, 2010 Puzzles

If you enjoy playing games with math, the way we do, you’ll see numerical relationships everywhere.  For example, when turning to page 64 in a book, you might note the number 64 as a perfect square, a perfect cube, and a number which has many factors.  A fun way to project math on the world around [...]

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