applied mathemagics

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Spotted in the Stanford Math Department (photo cred: Jessica Su)

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Spotted in the Stanford Math Department (photo cred: Jessica Su)

The official regulation MLB home plate is mathematically...

Sun, 29 Dec 2013 23:39:00 -0500

The official regulation MLB home plate is mathematically impossible:

Home plate in the game of baseball is an irregular pentagon with two parallel sides, each perpendicular to a base. It seems reasonable to dub such a figure (i.e., a rectangle with a coincident isosceles triangle placed on one side) a “isosceles right pentagon.”

However, specification of the shape of home plate, illustrated above, as specified by both the Major League Baseball Official Rules and the Little League rulebook (Kreutzer and Kerley 1990) is not physically realizable, since it requires the existence of a (12, 12, 17) right triangle, whereas

(Bradley 1996). More specifically, the standards require the existence of an isosceles right triangle with side lengths 8.5 inches and a hypotenuse of length 12 inches, which does not satisfy the Pythagorean theorem.

(Credit: Wolfram MathWorld)

I just can’t handle this

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I just can’t handle this

jtotheizzoe: Aatish Bhatia on the math trick behind MP3s,...

Mon, 25 Nov 2013 09:51:29 -0500

jtotheizzoe:

Aatish Bhatia on the math trick behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson’s face … AKA Fourier Transforms.

You’re probably thinking “there’s no way that could be interesting”, but you’re wrong.

Previously we saw this trick (is it a trick?) in action to draw famous faces using only mathematical functions.

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sorry for the lack of updates y'all

Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:50:50 -0400

real life takes a lot of time, yo.

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tastefullyoffensive: [gemmacorrell]

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tastefullyoffensive:

[gemmacorrell]

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themathkid: My entire collection of twisty puzzles. Just a...

Sun, 25 Aug 2013 21:10:50 -0400

themathkid:

My entire collection of twisty puzzles. Just a small sampling of the seemingly infinite number of geometries that are possible.

Too cool.

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Just discovered an awesome blog. Check out Math with Bad...

Sat, 24 Aug 2013 18:04:36 -0400

Just discovered an awesome blog. Check out Math with Bad Drawings!

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blackwingedheaven: MATH!

Sat, 10 Aug 2013 11:09:48 -0400

blackwingedheaven:

MATH!

Top 10 challenging puzzles that can win you big money if you solve them

Mon, 05 Aug 2013 21:50:00 -0400

Top 10 challenging puzzles that can win you big money if you solve them:

With all the problems in the world, there should be at least a few where you can get paid to find solutions. Lo and behold, there are some problems that you can totally get armloads of money for, sometimes for simply sitting in a chair and thinking about the answer. Problems likeâ¦

I'm Starting a band called the exponents

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beccafio:

…but we still need a base.

Dear Programmers,

Sun, 28 Jul 2013 13:00:55 -0400

Hi guys!

So I’ve noticed that lately, I’ve been posting quite a few CS-related jokes. So, I figured I’d start a whole new blog just related to that.

If you’re interested, follow csjokes.tumblr.com.

Thanks, and happy coding :)!