The Big Internet Math-Off 2024, Round 1, Match 1

July 1, 2024 3:35 AM

The Big Internet Math-Off 2024, Round 1, Match 1 – Here’s the first match in this year’s Big Internet Math-Off. Today, we’re pitting Katie Steckles against Benjamin Dickman. Take a look at both pitches, vote for the bit of maths that made you do the loudest “Aha!”, and if you know any more cool facts about either of the topics presented here, please write a comment below! Overview of the 2024 edition.

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• 2020
• 2019
• 2018

posted by Wolfdog (3 comments total)

Steckles [✓].
I was primed for her finding something interesting about chunks of consecutive numbers [in the digits of π] by yesterday's Numberphile [James Grime YT 14m] about Erdős–Woods Numbers https://oeis.org/A059756.
posted by BobTheScientist at 4:16 AM on July 1

the link out about Roger Apéry, apéryodical *bemused*, reminds me of memorials for Ludwig Boltzmann [atlas obscura] & Erwin Schrödinger ([medium:] Schrödinger's could be thought of as a puzzle, perhaps?) Shakespeare was more direct [Cañada college]
posted by HearHere at 4:41 AM on July 1

or, maybe, *indirect [xkcd]
posted by HearHere at 5:21 AM on July 1