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Math puzzle for April 17, 2026

Jeff Smith's Math Puzzle for April 17, 2026 - Price of Golden Rectangles soars as price of 1961 Corvairs plummets. The post ...
Scientific American

The humble ham sandwich inspired a math theorem for sharing food fairly

In the 1930s and 1940s, for example, a group of Polish mathematicians regularly met in a café in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, ...
BBC

Area of a triangle

To calculate the area of a rectangle you multiply the length by the width. A right-angled triangle is like half a rectangle. So to calculate the area of a triangle, you can work out the area of the ...
Quanta Magazine

The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived

Those changes will be contested, in math as in other academic disciplines wrestling with AI’s impact. As AI models become a ...
SB Nation

Indians fans spent over $200 on beer to make an awesome four-foot pyramid of empty cans

BEERAMID. • There are 98 cans visible in the picture above. The very bottom row is doubled up in order to provide a solid base, so that’s 14 more cans, which brings us to a total of 112. Friday night ...