#squareness — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #squareness, aggregated by home.social.
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The penultimate session of the Mathsjam UK Gathering 2023 featured @mattp showing off some lesser known curves, followed by Pedro Freitas and Jorge Nuno Silva who showed us a 19th Century lottery system using decks of cards. Ben Handley @steelgarden discussed the concept of "squareness" and how we can judge this, and revealed which three countries are squarer than a circle (a circle is surprisingly square) -- visit https://mathstodon.xyz/@steelgarden/111233852141422169 to read more. Finally, Clare Wallace helped us figure out exactly how wrong is the claim that "every packet of Skittles is unique", and gave us some skittles to eat as well! #mathsjam #maths #curves #lottery #cards #19thcentury #squareness #circles #skittles #uniqueness