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099 = Most Watched Films and Homonyms
9 december 2024 · 52 min
099 = Most Watched Films and Homonyms Lees meer
✍️ What single word in the English Language has the most different meanings?
📺 Is the most consumed media of all time a holiday movie or song?
🗞 There’s some Any Other Business!
⚔️ Battleships continues.
If you want to find out more about the Royal Flying Doctor Service, do that here: https://www.flyingdoctor.org.au/nswact/visit/broken-hill-visitor-centre/
You can see the full contents of Bec’s new outback first aid kit here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPuwoOtTFV8
If you want to learn more about WordNet (as mentioned in Matt’s problem) follow this link here: https://wordnet.princeton.edu/
If you’d like to see the trailer for what is apparently the most watched film of all time, you can do that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXqjcDchr14
And if you’d like to hear the most streamed song of all time, you can do that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHI8X4OXluQ&ab_channel=TheWeekndVEVO
Finally, IF you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer for Bec and Matt, please comment on the ‘Sup ‘Zards’ pinned post!
Perhaps you want to leave us a review, show the podcast to a friend or give us a rating? If you’d like to, please do that. It really helps.
AND if you want even more from A Problem Squared (and who doesn’t) you can connect with us and other fantastic listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and Discord.
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098 = Something Blue and Diamond Birthdays Too
25 november 2024 · 53 min
098 = Something Blue and Diamond Birthdays Too Lees meer
💙What are the most extreme examples of something old, something blue, something borrowed, something new?
💎What’s up with diamond birthdays?
🔥A new special one-time bonus section from Matt.
💼And a look into the business briefcase.
For the Diana Spencer Tiara, look no further:https://www.sothebys.com/en/digital-catalogues/power-image-royal-aristocratic-tiaras/the-spencer-tiara-r-s-garrard-1930s
Here’s an image of Ezra Jack Keats’ children’s story TheSnowy Day:
https://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/galleries/childhood/item/11304.Selected from the millions of books that have been checked out of the library since 1895, Ezra Jack Keats’ children’s story The Snowy Day, described as a “charming, beautifully illustrated tale of a child enjoying the simple magic that snow brings to his city,” tops the list.
And, perhaps the best suggestion from Bec, the Blue‘Pantheon’ aka Meteor 3200:https://www.space.com/42236-weird-blue-asteroid-phaethon.html#:~:text=Asteroid%203200%20Phaethon%20is%20a,typical%20for%20comets%20than%20asteroids.
Finally, this is the Diamond Birthday Tik Tok trendmentioned in Matt’s dinglett: https://www.tiktok.com/@misshaleymichelle/video/7196331969838566702?lang=en
If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on the ‘Sup ‘Zards’ pinnedpost!
If you want to leave us a review, show the podcast to afriend or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps.
Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared youcan connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.
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097 = Number of Maps & Numbered Pads
11 november 2024 · 46 min
097 = Number of Maps & Numbered Pads Lees meer
🗺 Are there enough OS maps to cover Great Britain?
0️⃣ Why does zero come after nine on a mobile phone?
📰 And, of course, some AOB!
If you want to see Bec’s friend Amy’s summary of accessibility in Thorpe Park and theme parks more generally, head on over to her instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/longcovidrockstar/
Here is a picture of The Big Tractor: https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/08/giant-red-tractor-carnamah-wa-australias-big-things
You can watch a brilliant Phone Phreaking Documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FufYSx2_6Bg&ab_channel=RCW39RJ
Here’s that Numberphile vid about Phone Buttons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCSzjExvbTQ&ab_channel=Numberphile
And the 17 Designs That Bell Almost Used for the Layout of Telephone Buttons: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/the-17-designs-that-bell-almost-used-for-the-layout-of-telephone-buttons/279237/
Please send your problems and solutions into the website: www.aproblemsquared.com.
If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on the ‘Sup ‘Zards’ pinned post!
And if you want (we’re not forcing anyone) to leave us a review, show the podcast to a friend or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps.
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096 = Movie Pairs and Moving Flares
29 oktober 2024 · 48 min
🎞 Why would competing studios release movies in the same year that have the same concept or plot? Lees meer
🔭 Why are we seeing the Aurora Borealis in the UK?
📈 Business of an any other nature.
If you want to have a listen to Bec on Tom Scott’s podcast ‘Lateral’ you can do that here, at some point soon: https://open.spotify.com/show/1TthQOE4Fx6gBPW8l48cfN
Their book can also be brought here! It’s really good: https://lateralcast.com/book/
To see a history of solar flare data going back to 1700, follow this link here: https://www.sidc.be/SILSO/ssngraphics
Please send your problems and solutions into the website: www.aproblemsquared.com.
If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on the ‘Sup ‘Zards’ pinned post!
And if you want (we’re not forcing anyone) to leave us a review, show the podcast to a friend or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps.
Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.
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095 = Friday Fears and Disco Spheres
15 oktober 2024 · 43 min
🍀 Does the 13th really fall more frequently on Friday? Lees meer
💿 How do you make a giant disco ball wearable?
🍩 And we have some any other doughness.
If you want to find out more about the cardboard related event (called Number City!) Matt attended on Orkney Island, have a look at this link: https://oisf.org/fest-event/number-city/.
Do send your problems and solutions to the website: www.aproblemsquared.com.
If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on the ‘Sup ‘Zards’ pinned post!
And if you like, leave us a review, pass the podcast onto a friend or give us a rating! Every little helps.
If you want even more from A Problem Squared, you can find us onTwitter,Instagram, and on Discord.
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094 = The First Podcasts and Votes Precast
30 september 2024 · 57 min
💿 What did the first ever podcast sound like? Lees meer
🗳 How do you REALLY lose an election in the US?
📰 Business will be closed, and opened.
Thank you to Emily for the Maths mittens! To see pictures of those, head over to APS socials.
You can see the incredible Agree to Disagree podcast pages from 1999 here:
https://web.archive.org/web/19990914040650/http://www.thealph.com/agree/
https://web.archive.org/web/19991004035401/http://thealph.com/agree/about.shtml
There is also a file, but we don’t think it contains any data. Can someone help find an original review?
https://web.archive.org/web/19991103231714/http://thealph.com/agree/episodes/6x02.shtml
Do send your problems and solutions to the website: www.aproblemsquared.com.
If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on the ‘Sup ‘Zards’ pinned post!
And if you like, leave us a review, pass the podcast onto a friend or give us a rating! Every little helps.
If you want even more from A Problem Squared, you can find us on Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord
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093 = Game Solutions and Neil Distributions
16 september 2024 · 58 min
⭕ Circle Can Tic-Tac-Toe ever be fun? Lees meer
🤏What is the smallest Neil called?
🗞There’s some Any Other Business!
⚔️Battleships continues.
If you want to read the works referenced by Matt in his tic-tac-toe / naughts and crosses problem, take a look below:
Solo Noughts and Crosses, James Grime: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10724117.2023.2168434
Tic-tac-tome, Willy Yoners: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tic-Tac-Autonomous-Playing-Book/dp/1594746877
A Knowledge-based Approach of Connect-Four The Game is Solved: White Wins, Victor Alis: https://disi.unitn.it/~montreso/asd/docs/connect4.pdf
Is ultimate tic-tac-toe solved? https://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/604-Ultimate_Tic_Tac_Toe_is_always_won_by_X
Please send your problems and solutions to the website: www.aproblemsquared.com.
If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on the ‘Sup ‘Zards’ pinned post!
And if you like, leave us a review, pass the podcast onto a friend or give us a rating! Every little helps.
If you want even more from A Problem Squared, you can find us on Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord
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092 = Broken Hands and Alexander's Bands
2 september 2024 · 49 min
🌈 How many colours are really in a rainbow? Lees meer
🕰 How often is a broken clock is right?
💼 The Any Other Business briefcase is open. Briefly.
🏴 And we have a NEW POST CREDITS easter egg.
To hear more about the brilliant and terrible Emily In Paris premier, listen to this episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/point-break-pt-1-season-04-episode-01/id1720149980?i=1000666164553
If you want to see where the Mattparker asteroid / minor planet is in the universe, you can locate it on this NASA database: https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=314159&view=VOP
A full circle rainbow was captured by aerial photographer Colin Leonhardt while flying through a rain shower just above Cottesloe Beach in Western Australia: https://s.abcnews.com/images/International/cn_round_rainbow_australia_jc_141010_16x9_992.jpg?w=1600
And if you want to be even more wowed, you can see a reflective rainbow (or six!) in Norway: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0709/sixrainbows_nordvik_big.jpg
Finally, send your problems and solutions to our website: www.aproblemsquared.com.
If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on the ‘Sup ‘Zards’ pinned post!
And if you like, leave us a review, pass the podcast onto a friend or give us a rating! Every little helps.
If you want even more from A Problem Squared, you can find us onTwitter,Instagram, and on Discord
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091 = Optimal Darts and Smelling Sharks
12 augustus 2024 · 50 min
🎯 What is the optimal layout for a dart board? Lees meer
🦈 How soon after a cut does a shark smell your blood?
📜 And there’s some AYE-YOOO-BEEEE.
To see the Percy Arrangement mentioned by Matt follow this link: https://www.globaldarts.de/globalDartsEN/sport/Percysboard.html
And for the “Optimal Dartboard Design” reveal, see here! https://journals.indexcopernicus.com/api/file/viewByFileId/1980058
If you want to learn more about shark senses, check out Sensory Biologist Dr. Lauren Eve Simonitis‘s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oceanexplauren/?hl=enAnd if you like, leave us a review, pass the podcast onto a friend or give us a rating! Every little helps.
Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared, you can find us on Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord
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090 = Washing Machine Lies and Lincoln Penny Highs
29 juli 2024 · 32 min
🧺 Why is the cycle time on my washing machines always wrong? Lees meer
🪙 How long will it take to sell 400 Lincoln memorial pennies for $20,000?
🔔 We have DINGS!
🧳 And the business briefcase is open!
Disclaimer: You may hear a slight change in tone on Matt's audio at points throughout, that's back up audio which sounds different.
If you want to find out more about the IMO, or International Mathematics Olympics, you can do that here: https://www.imo-official.org/
And if you’re in London and you want to experience the janky eclipse, why not visit Novelty Automation! You can find details about this gem of a place here: https://www.novelty-automation.com/10_current-machines.htm"
Finally, send your problems and solutions to our website: www.aproblemsquared.com.
If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on the ‘Sup ‘Zards’ pinned post!
And if you like, leave us a review, pass the podcast onto a friend or give us a rating! Every little helps.
Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared, you can find us on Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord
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089 = Venomous Snakes and Doggy Legs
15 juli 2024 · 48 min
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🐍If you pooled up all the snake venom in the world would it be enough to kill all the non-immune mammals?
👢Do dogs have 2 arms? Or do we have 4 legs?
📜And we open the business briefcase.
If you want to know more about lizard sampling, do that here: ‘Hierarchical distance sampling to estimate population sizes of common lizards across a desert ecoregion’: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.4780
There’s a great video by Technology Connections to turn signals and specifically syncing them up, you can find that here: https://youtu.be/2z5A-COlDPk?si=SWSE_FX3fuyLH1X0
You can find the rude praying hands here: https://www.reddit.com/r/teams/comments/xvpefh/can_we_please_talk_about_the_praying_emoji_on/
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/hand-gestures-in-microsoft-teams-free-ff2354cd-17fa-44fc-80c9-3d88c577a1ad
As always, send your problems and solutions to our website: www.aproblemsquared.com.
And, if you want more from A Problem Squared, you can also find us on Twitter, Instagram, Discord and on Patreon.
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088 = Tired Tires and Curvy Cubes
1 juli 2024 · 50 min
🚘 What happens when tires get tired? Lees meer
🧊 What is the equation for the curve on a spinning Ruibik’s cube?
📜 And there’s some pin related AOB!
Find out more about the counting crows here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl0984
You can hear Bec on Ali Plumb’s podcast ‘Screen Time’ here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02r4zfx/episodes/downloads
If you want to learn more about the EMF Festival, follow this link: https://www.emfcamp.org/
To read ‘Where the tire meets the road: Emerging environmental impacts of tire wear particles and their chemical cocktails’, go here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171153
For more information on the cones, ruled surfaces, hyperbolic paraboloids and more, have a look at the links below!
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Hyperboloid.html
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/RuledSurface.html
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/HyperbolicParaboloid.html
You can see some nice hyperboloid structures here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperboloid#Hyperboloid_structures
As always, send your problems and solutions to our website: www.aproblemsquared.com.
And, if you want more from A Problem Squared, you can also find us on Twitter, Instagram, Discord and on Patreon.
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087 = Climbing Cliffses and Cloning Eclipses
17 juni 2024 · 51 min
🧗 Is it possible to climb every mountain? Lees meer
🌞 Can you simulate an eclipse if you miss the real thing?
📜 And some loose ends (and change), in AOB!
If you’d like to enter the very same gravel race as Matt Parker, you can find out more details here: https://sevengravelrace.com/the-race/
You can listen to ‘Climb Any Mountain’ from the Sound of Music soundtrack here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKuqySkqhHw&ab_channel=COSMOTOPPER777
And to watch the 1991 The Shamen hit ‘Move Any Mountain’ referenced by Matt (which we later discovered was made by our very own Producer Lauren’s dad!) Follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpjnzxtZ6Qg&ab_channel=Vesanorabonah
You can find details for Matt’s Peak data here: https://peakvisor.com/
https://peakvisor.com/en/news/how_many_mountains_on_earth.html
https://peakvisor.com/en/news/unnamed-mountains.html
In our Dinglett this week Matt referenced JHelioviewer, where you can access real time solar image data. Do that here: https://www.jhelioviewer.org/
And Bec’s very sensible suggestion for Problem Poser Aaron, to watch the Oculus’ broadcast of the 2024 total eclipse: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/event/1074832456934803/
SFX for Bec’s victory can be found at Fresound.org, ‘VICTORY CRY Reverb 1’ was made by chripei and ‘Music: Orchestral Victory Fanfare’ was made by Sheyvan.
As always, send your problems and solutions to our website: www.aproblemsquared.com.
And, if you want more from A Problem Squared, you can also find us on Twitter, Instagram, Discord and on Patreon.
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086 = Emoji Editions and Birthday Billions
3 juni 2024 · 40 min
🙏 Is this emoji praying hands or a high five? Lees meer
🍚 What's the best present for celebrating a billion seconds?
💼 For the first time we have Any Other Business WITH SPECIAL GUESTS!
If you want a collectable (and mistake-ridden) copy of ‘Love Triangle’, with a special, limited edition book cover designed by print-artist Paul Catherall. You'll get one free while stocks last. Head over to MathsGear! https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/love-triangle-by-matt-parker-signed
Here’s some background on the ‘Folded Hands’ emoji mentioned in Bec’s problem: https://blog.emojipedia.org/emojiology-folded-hands/
This is the pixelated 2001 Softbank version of the Folded Hands emoji: https://emojipedia.org/softbank/2001/folded-hands
Here’s the KDDI emoji from 2003, where someone is literally praying: https://emojipedia.org/au-kddi/type-d-1/folded-hands
You can find the ‘glowing’ folded hands emoji put out by Apple in 2008 here: https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2/folded-hands
You can find some more variations of the folded hand emoji (including with faces) here: https://b1681952.smushcdn.com/1681952/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Early-Versions-Folded-Hands-Emojipedia-1.jpg?lossy=0&strip=1&webp=1
There were some fascinating early issues with Unicode (which made emojis universal), where ‘yellow hearts’ sent by iOS users would show up as ‘hairy hearts’ on Android phones. You can read about that here: https://web.archive.org/web/20140502051433/http://www.tuaw.com/2014/04/30/you-may-be-accidentally-sending-friends-a-hairy-heart-emoji/
You can find the Unicode emoji design guidelines here: https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Design_Guidelines
And if you want to find out whether you’ve already passed your 1 Billionth Second, you can do that here: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=10%5E9+seconds+in+years+and+days
If you want to find out whether you’ve already passed your 1 Billionth Second, you can do that here: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=10%5E9+seconds+in+years+and+days
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085 = Coin Collections and Pin Selections
21 mei 2024 · 52 min
🪙 How many coins would you need to sort through to collect all commemorative €2 coins in circulation? Lees meer
📍How do you display enamel pins?!
💼 The Any Other Business briefcase is…mostly open.
Here’s the Coupon Collector’s problem video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BstloCx8KDk
You can see more on the “Number of banknotes/coins returned from circulation in Euro Area, Euro area (changing composition), Monthly” here: https://data.ecb.europa.eu/data/datasets/BKN/BKN.M.U2.RE10.C.20P0.AS.F.E
And, Wiki Sources: “2 euro commemorative coins” on good old Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_euro_commemorative_coins
As always, send your problems and solutions to our website: www.aproblemsquared.com.
And, if you want more from A Problem Squared, you can also find us on Twitter, Instagram, Discord and on Patreon.
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084 = Indicators and In Da Cake-ers
6 mei 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
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🎂 Where did birthday cake come from?
🚗 How come my indicator is never in sync with other cars waiting to turn?
💼 And, as always, some business from the business briefcase.
Nina, here’s that recipe for Greek Honey Cake: https://www.food.com/recipe/greek-honey-cake-428671
And for more cake from around the world, look no further than this infographic: https://i.imgur.com/lhhotIE.png
Here’s the Ben Eater video referenced by Matt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRlSFm519Bo
And the fascinating paper about time perception and its illusions: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2866156/
Please do send us your problems and solutions to the website: www.aproblemsquared.com
If you want more from A Problem Squared, you can also find us on Twitter, Instagram, Discord and on Patreon.
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083 = Sunbeams and Dog Dreams
22 april 2024 · 46 min
🌒 What’s the best place to see the next solar eclipse? Lees meer
💤 Do animals dream?
💼 The Any Other Business briefcase is…half open.
Send your problems and solutions to our website: www.aproblemsquared.com.
For a detailed look at the path of the 2026 eclipse, here’s the website referenced by Matt: https://eclipsophile.com/future-eclipses-2024-2028/
If you want to hear the full interview with David Pena Guzman about animal consciousness referenced by Bec, you can do that here: https://news.uchicago.edu/do-animals-dream-david-m-pena-guzman.
Videos of Sky potentially dreaming will be on social media. Tell us what you think? Do dogs dream?
And, if you want more from A Problem Squared, you can also find us on Twitter, Instagram, Discord and on Patreon.
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An Emergency Broadcast to Solve an Emergency Problem.
8 april 2024 · 25 min
🔔🚨This is an emergency broadcast🚨🔔 Lees meer
Unfortunately a bout of sudden food poisoning has got in the way of our latest recording session. Everyone's safe (now) but as you may have noticed, we're missing an episode.
We've now got a new date in the diary but the podcast won't be back for two weeks - sorry about that everyone!
SO in this episode, A Problem Squared presents...
🧙♀️ The first EVER episode of bonus podcast I'm A Wizard.
🪄A latter and very silly episode of I'm A Wizard.
We HOPE this is a good solution to our emergency problem, but only you, the listener, can give us that ding.
And if you'd like to hear more from the Wizards, you can join up on Patreon and give as little or as much as you like.
Thanks everyone!
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082 = What Is Lint and Zero Hints
25 maart 2024 · 56 min
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🧺 What is lint?
👌 When does zero count?
💼 And, as always, some business from the business briefcase.
Please do send us your problems and solutions to the website: www.aproblemsquared.com.
Bec’s got loads of gigs coming up! If you wanna go see her check out dates on her website: https://www.bechillcomedian.com/tour-gigs.
Matt’s also got an Evening of Unnecessary Detail every two weeks at the Cockpit Theatre in Marylebone, London.
There’s going to be a mathssive (get it) Evening of Unnecessary Detail Extravaganza show at the Bristol Beacon on the 12th March.Find details for those here: https://festivalofthespokennerd.com/tickets/.
If you want more from A Problem Squared, you can also find us on Twitter, Instagram, Discord and on Patreon.
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081 = Pi Prize and Square Stairs
11 maart 2024 · 55 min
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🥧 Can Pi ever repeat itself?
🪜 Is it impossible for cube-based stairs to be identical?
📈 And some Business of an Any Other Nature.
If you want to see the biggest hand calculation in HISTORY, you can! Just head over to Matt’s YouTube channel on the 14th of March: https://www.youtube.com/@standupmaths
An Evening of Unnecessary Detail is BACK IN NEW YORK! On the 14th of April, at The Bell House in Brooklyn from 7:30pm!
You can get tickets for that here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/matt-parker-an-evening-of-unnecessary-detail-tickets-847453715877?aff=oddtdtcreator
Ever wanted to know the answer to whether ALL Japanese snacks scale with the packaging imagery? Well now you can, on Bec’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-roi6FdISY&ab_channel=BecHill
GO SEE BEC! She’s playing in Reading and Louth in April. You can find the dates for that, here: https://www.bechillcomedian.com/tour-gigs
YOU CAN PRE-ORDER MATT’S NEW BOOK ‘Love Triangle’ NOW!
For a signed, but full priced copy with a special dust jacket follow this link: https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/love-triangle-by-matt-parker-signed
Or for 21% off your pre-order, follow this link to Waterstones: https://tinyurl.com/2fdjnwwz
As always, please send your problems and solutions to the Problem Solving Page, here: www.aproblemsquared.com.
If you want more from A Problem Squared, you can also find us on Twitter, Instagram, Discord and on Patreon.
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080 = Naming Clichés and Squaring Birthdays
26 februari 2024 · 47 min
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🍼 What’s the best method for naming a human child?
🎊 How do you turn 45^2=2025 into a birthday celebration?
📜 AYE-YOOO-BEEEE.
Please do send us your problems and solutions to the website: www.aproblemsquared.com
Bec’s got loads of gigs coming up! If you wanna go see her check out dates on her website: https://www.bechillcomedian.com/tour-gigs
Matt’s also got an Evening of Unnecessary Detail every two weeks at the Cockpit Theatre in Marylebone, London.
There’s going to be a mathssive (get it) Evening of Unnecessary Detail Extravaganza show at the Bristol Beacon on the 12th March.
Find details for those here: https://festivalofthespokennerd.com/tickets/
If you want more from A Problem Squared, you can also find us on Twitter, Instagram, Discord and on Patreon.
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079 = Driving Clockwise and Evolving Dragonflies
12 februari 2024 · 44 min
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⤵ Is it faster to drive around Australia in an anticlockwise direction on the inside lane?
🐉 What were dragonflies called before there were dragons?
💼 Business of an ‘Any Other’ nature.
New segment: Things Matt Needs Help With. If you can help with ANY of Matt’s ideas, get in touch!
If you’d like to see Matt’s diagrams and GP MOTO plot, head on over to Twitter or Patreon!
The podcast has officially HIT 2 MILLION! Tell us how you think we should celebrate.
As always you can send your problems and your solutions into the Problem Posing Page: www.aproblemsquared.com.
If you want more from A Problem Squared, you can also find us on Twitter, Instagram, Discord and of course, on Patreon.
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078 = Spinal Taps and Star Maps
29 januari 2024 · 50 min
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🇺🇸 A LAT of LA chat.
⭐️ If you visited each star on the Hollywood Walk of fame in alphabetical order, how far would you have to travel?
📜 And some sort of Any Other Businesses.
Send us your problems and your solutions to the Problem Posing Page: www.aproblemsquared.com
If you want more from A Problem Squared, you can also find us on Twitter, Instagram, Discord and of course, on Patreon.
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077 = Earth That Quakes and Quick Fire Takes
15 januari 2024 · 47 min
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🌏 How often do earthquakes take place in the same location, on the same date, in different years?
🔔 Dingletts, dingletts and more dingletts!
💨 A fundamental buoyancy error.
If you want to look into the data Matt used for his earthquake problem, you can find that here: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-data.
If you want to see the plots Matt mentions, please head on over to Twitter or Patreon.
Here are Bec's podcast recommendations:
- Science Vs: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs
- A Podcast of Unnecessary Detail: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-podcast-of-unnecessary-detail/id1441973787
- Swindled: https://swindledpodcast.com/
- Decoder Ring: https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring
- And of course, her own brand new podcast 'Enemy In Paris': https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/enemy-in-paris/id1720149980
As always, send us your general problems and solutions to the website: www.aproblemsquared.com.
If you want more from A Problem Squared, you can also find us on Instagram and Discord.
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076 = Human Pasta and Strada Romana
1 januari 2024 · 38 min
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🍝 How long would human spaghetti be?
🏛 Do all roads actually lead to Rome?
📜 We have new old business for a new new year.
P.S episode not intentionally Italy themed.
If you want to go see Matt and Bec in LA get to the Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank on Sunday January 7th at 5pm!
Bec and Matt will put on An Evening of Unnecessary Detail along with a few of their friends as guest acts.
Come and say hi! Matt will sign your calculator. Bec will also sign your calculator - right across the top of Matt's signature.
If you want to go to that, you can get your tickets here now: https://www.flapperscomedy.com/shows/an-evening-of-unnecessary-detail/72865/
As always, send us your general problems and solutions to the website: www.aproblemsquared.com
If you want more from A Problem Squared, you can find us on Twitter, Instagram, Discord and of course, on Patreon.
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075 = Roman Recursion and Role-Play Immersion
18 december 2023 · 42 min
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🏺 What is the biggest roman numeral word?
🎲 How do I get my friends to play D&D?
🪵 A Christmas Stumpdate!
💼 And the business briefcase is OPEN.
If you'd like some extra listening over the next few weeks, have a listen to Bec on Dan Schreiber’s podcast ‘We Can Be Weirdos’ you can find the link here: https://tinyurl.com/mrymvb29
And if you'd like to see the Aunty Donna sketch showing how not to explain a table top game to a new player, look no further: http://tinyurl.com/574m6m98
To watch campaigns played by Questing Time follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/c/questingtime
For the Dragon Friends Podcast: https://thedragonfriends.com
And for the Harmontown Podcast: https://www.harmontown.com/category/podcasts/
IF you’ve got any LA based problems, please do send them in to the Problem Solving Page: https://tinyurl.com/2s2x7az4
We'll be announcing the venue for a Podcast of Unnecessary Detailonce a venue has been found.
And if you’d like to receive a belated, but signed Christmas card you can still sign up to Wizard Support on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/aproblemsquared/membership
(You’ll get a digital version too!)
As always, send us your general problems and solutions to the website: www.aproblemsquared.com
If you want more from A Problem Squared, you can find us on Twitter, Instagram, and of course, on Patreon.
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074 = Chocolate Powder Fails and Consonant/Vowel Details
4 december 2023 · 48 min
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🍫 Can you prevent hot chocolate from clumping?
🖊 When is a vowel a vowel?
👾 We have some Discord news!
💼 And a small amount of Business, of Any Other nature.
The holidays have arrived early because, and APS DISCORD IS FINALLY HERE! Head on over using this link: https://discord.gg/pt4WsfhMCY
You too can make your computer talk! Here's a link to the Praat vowel software Matt was using at the start of today’s Dinglet: https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/
If you’d like to see the Vowel Space video referenced by Matt follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdldD0-kEcc
And for more from linguist and phonetics expert Dr Geoff Lindsay (and with that voice, who wouldn't!) you can do that here: https://www.youtube.com/@DrGeoffLindsey
If you know anything about the Apollo 11 flight diagram depicted here: https://tinyurl.com/4wjwcu6c let us know!
As always, send us your problems and solutions to the website: www.aproblemsquared.com
If you want more from A Problem Squared, you can find us on Twitter, Instagram, and of course, on Patreon.
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073 = Farting Thrust and Pocket Mistrust
20 november 2023 · 49 min
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💨 How low would gravity need to be for farts to lift you off the ground?
👖 Is there a solution to suboptimal trouser pockets?🔔 Ding ding ding!
📜 Business, fresh from the Any Other briefcase.
If you want to participate in a MathsJam near you, you can find your local event right here: https://www.mathsjam.com/
And if you are a child, or an adult who has children who are fans of the show, tell THEM to send in their problems for our kids only episode - coming soon!
Don’t forget to tag the problem with the word ‘Kidition’, it’ll help us find it!
If you want to commission a cool bum-bag to support a good cause, Bec mentions Second Stitch Melbourne in her dinglett.
You can find a link for them here: https://www.secondstitch.org.au/
Please do send us your problems and solutions to the website: www.aproblemsquared.com
If you want more from A Problem Squared, find us on Twitter, Instagram, and of course, Patreon.
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072 = The Perfect Paint Set and Rubik's Reset
6 november 2023 · 57 min
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🎨 What's the best hypothetical paint set?
🧊 Can a single turning pattern return a Rubik's cube to where it started?
🛰 And some Any Orbital Business!
If you want to weigh in on the Reasonable / Unreasonable debate, and watch Bec in her element painting a wardrobe, follow this link: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyJwjphMesl/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
And if you want to see more from the colour theorist, Peter Donahue, who consulted on Bec's problem, find him on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/art.pete.repeat/?hl=en
For Martin Bellander's incredible colour graph, follow this link: https://blog.martinbellander.com/post/115411125748/the-colors-of-paintings-blue-is-the-new-orange
Please do send us your problems and solutions to the website: aproblemsquared.com.
If you want more from A Problem Squared, find us on Twitter, Instagram. and of course Patreon.
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071 = Snap Probability and Zombie Mobility
24 oktober 2023 · 54 min
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🃏 Is the probability in a game of snap changed if two packs of cards are used?
🧟 Can zombies ride bikes?
🥣 A commemorative plate-bowl update.
👻 And some Any Other BOoOoOosiness!
If YOU want this year's APS Christmas card be sure to sign up to the Wizard Level on Patreon by the END OF NOVEMBER.
You can do that here: https://www.patreon.com/aproblemsquared/membership
We'll be sharing a link to our new Discord soon. In the meantime, go talk on the APS Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AProblemSquared/
As always, pease send your problems and solutions to our website: aproblemsquared.com.
And if you want more from A Problem Squared, find us on Twitter, Instagram. and Patreon.
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070 = Speaking Profanities and Lettered Localities
16 oktober 2023 · 58 min
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📣 Which words sound rude in other languages?
✏️ Which letters go where most often?
🛩 And some any aeroplane-autobahn business!
Tony has give us some fantastic Maths Decor. Platonic Solid doorknobs and how to make them: https://ko-fi.com/s/642d70ef7f
A couple of brilliant listeners gave us some great more information on emergency landings on the Autobahn. You can find links to that here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_strip and here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notlandeplatz_auf_Stra%C3%9Fe#Autobahn-Behelfslandepl%C3%A4tze.
You can find a selection of highway and Autobahn landings captured on camera here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj1diDwW8WWUj8vYdlo3kIBUPzxfedn_n
You can now subscript to I'm A Wizard on Spotify! If you want to do that, here are instructions on how to integrate Patreon on Spotify on the app: https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-gb/articles/17201706786573-Listen-to-Patreon-exclusive-audios-on-Spotify
More news about the Discord is COMING SOON!
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069 = Tiling Planes and Driving Planes
25 september 2023 · 47 min
In this episode... - What is the optimal maths based pattern to decorate a rented home? - Is it possible to fly a plane on the autobahn? - And some bloody brilliant Any Other Business You can find more information about the Art Installation, or Zeitpyramide, Matt references in the catch up here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitpyramide For more amazing tile patterns, check out Ayliean's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ayliean/video/7276938427071876385 And if you'd like to read the Hat Tile original paper, you can do that here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10798 Here's the APS Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AProblemSquared/ We'll share our new Discord, which we don't really know how to use yet, once we've got some mods in place so watch this space... As always, pease send your problems and solutions to our website: aproblemsquared.com. And if you want more from A Problem Squared, find us on Twitter, Instagram. and Patreon. Lees meer
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068 = Big Feastival and Bike Intervals
12 september 2023 · 32 min
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In this wet and festivally episode...
- How green is cycling really?
- An update on Stawberry-gate.
Again, if anyone has any information about the Time Fun jumper, please do send it to the Problem Posing Page! Check out our social media to see it if you haven't already.
And finally, please send your problems and solutions to our website: aproblemsquared.com.
IF you want more from A Problem Squared, find us on Twitter, Instagram. and Patreon.
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067 = Line Times and Wide Words
28 augustus 2023 · 53 min
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🙏 How often do the hands of time align?
📜What is the longest one syllable word?
💼And a very large serving of AAAOOOBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
After such glowing recommendations, you’ve got to go listen to Confidence Man: https://www.confidenceman.com.au/
Here’s Bec’s contribution to the Samaritvans exhibit: https://shop.sarahgraham.info/products/samarivan-bec-hill.
If you find yourself in Hitchen between the 22nd - 29th September 2023, go see the exhibit for real, at Arkley Fine Art on Hermitage Rd.
More about Arkley here: https://arkleyfineart.co.uk/. If you want to check out more of Sarah Graham’s work you can do that here: https://sarahgraham.info/.
If anyone has any information about the Time Fun jumper, please do send it to the Problem Posing Page!
And finally, please send your problems and solutions to our website: aproblemsquared.com.
IF you want more from A Problem Squared, find us on Twitter, Instagram. and Patreon.
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066 = Strawberry Yields and Football Fields
14 augustus 2023 · 59 min
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🍓 Are there more strawberries or old men on earth?
⚽️ Is Melbourne Rectangular Stadium more or less rectangular than the average football stadium?
🏆 Did Austrailia beat Denmark at the Women's World Cup? Find out here!
🖇 And a healthy dose of Any Other Business.
You can watch Bec's striker skills in action on CBBC's Saturday Mash Up, here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001pnkl/saturday-mashup-live-series-6-episode-6
Here is a link to WayBackMachine used by Bec to research her problem: https://archive.org/
If you'd like some fresh insights into the Global Fresh Strawberry Industry, you can find that here (2022 - 2023): https://www.skyquestt.com/report/fresh-strawberry-market
If you too want exclusive access to the latest Magic Square breakthroughs follow this link: https://numbers-magic.com/?p=9988
Here are Ian's joke specifications for fire hoses, adapted from an old set of joke pipe specs dating back to at least the 80s: https://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/87/14917.23.html
As always, send your problems and solutions to our website: aproblemsquared.com.
And if you want more from A Problem Squared, find us on Twitter, Instagram. and Patreon.
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065 = Central Parks and Baseball Larks
31 juli 2023 · 35 min
This is a single problem, AOB-less and DIY episode...what could be more New York? Lees meer
🏟 Baseball fun in New York City!
📍 How central is Central Park really?
📜 Vibe for this episode: "It's real man"
A NOTE TO ALL LISTENERS: Please be aware that audio quality may not be what you're used to. This episode deviates from the usual format. The structure heard here is what we like to call: Freeform.
We've put a map of Manhattan on Twitter if you want to have a look at that as you listen!
As always, send your problems and solutions to our website: aproblemsquared.com.
And if you want more from A Problem Squared, find us on Twitter, Instagram. and Patreon.
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064 = A Tetris Education and Candy Bar Formation
17 juli 2023 · 46 min
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👾 What is the best way to win at Tetris?
🍫 Revisited: Have all the candy bars been invented?
📜 And some AOOOOOOOOOB.
You can find the Bonham's Nintendo Gameboy Sale: https://www.bonhams.com/auction/19144/lot/250/nintendo-game-boy-flown-in-space/
Check out the rest of the sale too...it's pretty cool: https://www.bonhams.com/auction/19144/the-space-history-sale/
Evidence of the Beng-Beng Chocolate Caramel Hazelnut Crispy Wafer bar: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/203119821326
As always, send your problems and solutions to our website: aproblemsquared.com.
And if you want more from A Problem Squared, find us on Twitter, Instagram. and Patreon.
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063 = Meta Magic Squares and Fire Hose Care
3 juli 2023 · 51 min
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🔲 Is it possible to make a magic square of magic squares where each cell is the magic constant of another magic square?
📜 Bec becomes a document detective!
🚨 It's a New York Alert
💼 What's in the briefcase today?
❓AND a big muppet reveal.
You can find the Magic Square of Magic Squares here (It's the second one on the page): https://inderjtaneja.com/2022/02/10/100-magic-squares-of-order-42-with-numbers-00-99/
Here's the original Numperphile video 'Magic Squares of Squares (are PROBABLY impossible)': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdsj84UdeYg&ab_channel=Numberphile
The Firehose Specifications Document can be viewed here (It can't be real, right?): https://ifunny.co/picture/australian-government-fire-hose-spfcifications-all-hose-is-to-be-PDLNwbBZA?s=cl
Now you know, which muppets Bec and Matt are - tell us, which Muppet are YOU?
And send in your CONEY ISLAND related problems to the Problem Posing Page: www.aproblemsquared.com, or on social media @aproblemsquared.
If you want to sponsor the podcast, head on over to our Patreon page. You can can find that here: https://www.patreon.com/aproblemsquared
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062 = The Ice Cream Hack and Burger Rings Packs
19 juni 2023 · 37 min
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🍦 Can you lose weight with a diet of ice cream and beer?
🍔 What's up with Burger Rings?
🛎 DING! DING! DING! DING!
💼 And some A-OHHHHH-B.
Here's the Burger Rings 1992 ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo5sKqwUQBs
Here's the ACTUAL packet, as remembered by Matt and Bec: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fordsbasement/7183508658#
As always, send your problems and solutions to our website: aproblemsquared.com.
If you'd like to find out which Muppet you are (who doesn't, right?) you can skip ahead of Matt and Bec to do the quiz here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jenlewis/which-muppet-are-you.
And if you want more from A Problem Squared, find us on Twitter, Instagram. and Patreon.
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061 = Shifting Dates and Lifting Waits
5 juni 2023 · 52 min
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🌍 Where should Earth be?
🛗 What's the best way to spend one minute in a lift?
♾ Why are there different sizes of infinity?
💼 And, business. Any other.
Send your problems and solutions to our website: aproblemsquared.com.
If you'd like to find out which Muppet you are (who doesn't, right?) you can skip ahead of Matt and Bec to do the quiz here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jenlewis/which-muppet-are-you.
And if you want more from A Problem Squared, find us on Twitter, Instagram. and Patreon.
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060 = Cables Coiled and Water World
22 mei 2023 · 33 min
In this episode... 🎧 How do you stop the wires on headphones from twisting? 🏊🏽♀️ If the Earth was a smooth sphere, how much water would sit on it's surface? 🛎 Get ready for some dings! 💼 And the business briefcase is open. If you'd like to find out exactly why our pockets twist up our wires, follow this link: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/why-do-your-earphones-get-tangled-in-your-pocket-science-has-the-answer-9548540.html For more on the spontaneous knotting of an agitated string, look no further: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0611320104#sec-2 To really comprehend the over under technique you have to see it, and even then it's tricky. You can attempt to find out how to do that, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwMJHMSmjVY The Merch Competition is ongoing, so send in your sizes for those T-Shirts! And phone it in if you want THE HAT! Put your down preferences HERE: bit.ly/APSgiveaway If you'd like to find out which Muppet you are, you can speed ahead of Matt and Bec and find that out here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jenlewis/which-muppet-are-you. As always send your problems and solutions to our website: aproblemsquared.com. And, finally, if you want EVEN MORE from A Problem Squared, find us on Twitter, Instagram or Patreon. Lees meer
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059 = Concealing Stars and Conceiving Bars
8 mei 2023 · 56 min
In THIS episode... 🌝 Is the diameter of the sun and the moon the spookiest of coincidences? 🍫 Where on earth are the new candy bars?! 📈 What's in the Business Briefcase today? Here's the incredible bath related research conducted and compiled by David, go take a look it's fantastic: https://www.dropbox.com/s/89sp8ekvx2d13m7/Bath_Gustavsson.pdf?dl=0 Lees meer
And Tin's code with Matt's favourite plot, you can find that here: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/tinnuadan/PipingHotBath/blob/main/becbath.html
If you'd like to see Matt and Bec in New York for an Evening of Unnecessary Detail you can still buy STANDING tickets here for $20: https://www.caveat.nyc/events/aeoud-7-13-2023 Merch Competition: Send in your sizes for those T-Shirts! And phone it in if you want THE HAT! Put your down preferences HERE: bit.ly/APSgiveaway If you'd like to find out which Muppet YOU are, just speed ahead of Matt and Bec and find that out here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jenlewis/which-muppet-are-you. Send your problems, solutions and t-shirt specifications to our website: aproblemsquared.com. And, finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared, find us on Twitter and Instagram.
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058 = Bluey's Beats and Undies Cheats
24 april 2023 · 47 min
In THIS episode... 🎶 What's the time signature of the Bluey theme tune? 🔐 How can you get the security tag off an item of clothing at home? 🐹 The first answer to the first A Peanut Squared. 🗂 And some Any Other Business. If you'd like to visit or participate in the Polyplane exhibition at Rutgers University, find out more on their website here: http://polyplane.org. You can watch Adam Neely expand on Bec's answer for irregular time signatures here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KCpJx_2K_g. ***Merch Competition UPDATE: DO NOT SEND YOUR PREFERENCES TO THE PROBLEM POSING PAGE!*** Send in your sizes for those T-Shirts! And phone it in if you want THE HAT! Put your down preferences HERE: bit.ly/APSgiveaway And finally if you'd like to find out which Muppet YOU are, just speed ahead of Matt and Bec and find that out here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jenlewis/which-muppet-are-you. Send your problems, solutions and t-shirt specifications to our website: aproblemsquared.com. And, finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared, find us on Twitter and Instagram. Lees meer
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057 = Factorial Calculations and Optimal Celebrations
10 april 2023 · 48 min
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* Matt has found the last number.
* How do you determine which day of the week a given date falls on if you know the day of another date?
* And some other international business.
If you'd like to see Bec and Matt at An Evening of Unnecessary Detail IN NEW YORK, get tickets here: https://festivalofthespokennerd.com/show/an-evening-of-unnecessary-detail/
This is your 10 day call, this link closes on the 20th of April! -- Roll up! roll up! The limited edition Millionth Download Commemorative Plates and / or Bowls are here. You can ORDER them here:
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If you want to find out more about the Solar Eclipse Matt's going to see in Aus, do that here: https://www.australiascoralcoast.com/products/ningaloo-eclipse#:~:text=On%20April%2020%2C%202023%20visitors,a%20total%20solar%20eclipse%20occurs.
Matt explains this tweet to Bec in our first problem: https://twitter.com/standupmaths/status/1354919418300657669
And here is the offending, and very funny, website they reference - Visual Fractions: https://visualfractions.com/calculator/factorial/what-is-the-factorial-of-170/
If you'd like to find out which Muppet YOU are, just speed ahead of Matt and Bec and find that out here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jenlewis/which-muppet-are-you.
Send your problems and solutions to our website: aproblemsquared.com.
And, finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared, find us on Twitter and Instagram.
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056 = LTRL Words and Half-Life Burns
27 maart 2023 · 46 min
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🐹 A Peanut Squared!
📇 How many words neatly shorten to letter-name versions?
🔥 Was Michael Jackson's hair catching fire in a Pepsi ad the exact mid-point of his life?
💼 And some Other Business.
Roll up! roll up! The limited edition Millionth Episode Commemorative Plates and / or Bowls have arrived. You can PRE-ORDER them here:
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If you want to see the full Two Ronnies 'Swedish Made Simple' sketch, you can find that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc3M1nppd3c
So you're 18+ and want to see Micheal Jackson's hair on fire in diorama form. Good news! You can do that on Bobby Fingers Youtube, right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHi479xN_po
Matt's video 'Was Michael Jackson's hair catching fire in a Pepsi ad the exact mid-point of his life?' can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUuGy5agBfg
And we welcome PEANUT to the APS family. The very first A Peanut Squared problem is - If peanut needs to eat 5 g of pellets every day, and hamsters live for two years, how many grams of pellets is Bec going to need over Peanut’s lifetime?
You can also get your DING' t-shirts here https://a-problem-squared.teemill.com.
If you'd like to find out which Muppet YOU are, just speed ahead of Matt and Bec and find that out here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jenlewis/which-muppet-are-you.
If YOU'VE got a problem or a solution, hit us up on our website aproblemsquared.com.
And, finally, if you want want even more from A Problem Squared, find us on Twitter and Instagram.
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055 = Bristol Bus Buds and Generic Soap Suds
14 maart 2023 · 49 min
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🚍 What’s the probability that you get on a bus and see a colleague who's travelling to the same house as you?
🧽 Can I use a single cheap soap to clean absolutely everything?
✨ And, coincidences. Lots of them.
If you've got a problem or a solution, hit us up on our website aproblemsquared.com.
You can get your DING' t-shirts here https://a-problem-squared.teemill.com.
If you'd like to find out which Muppet YOU are, just speed ahead of Matt and Bec and find that out here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jenlewis/which-muppet-are-you.
And if you want want even more from A Problem Squared, find us on Twitter and Instagram.
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054 = Sparkling Wines and Marking Lines
27 februari 2023 · 50 min
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Can a spoon keep open champagne fizzy?
Are two minimalist rulers more effective than one 30cm ruler?
There's some Any Other Bubbness.
And, you're cordially invited to the Royal Society!
If you'd like to watch Matt on a very fast motorbike, have a look at this! You can find 'Rapid Motion Through Space: An Incomplete History of Speed' here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYDdHSXRQro&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fcosmicshambles.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title&themeRefresh=1 We want YOU for the 2022 Zeeman presentation! Come cheer on Matt getting his award at Royal Academy in London on the 22nd of March: 'Can we get a DING!?' You can find details on how to attend that here: https://ima.org.uk/21241/ima-lms-christopher-zeeman-lecture-and-medal-presentation/ If you've got a problem or a solution, hit us up on our website aproblemsquared.com. You can get your DING' t-shirts here https://a-problem-squared.teemill.com. If you'd like to find out which Muppet YOU are, just speed ahead of Matt and Bec and find that out here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jenlewis/which-muppet-are-you And if you want want even more from A Problem Squared, find us on Twitter and Instagram.
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053 = Elementary Monikers and Rotatory Chronikers
13 februari 2023 · 40 min
In this episode... 🪨 Which human names are the least elemental? 🕰️ Why do clocks run clockwise? 🧳 Some news from the business briefcase! 🪵 And an even NEWER stumpdate. If you'd like to know how to bring plants and more specifically, your stumps, into the UK without an infestation of termites, have a look how, here: https://www.gov.uk/bringing-plants-and-wood-into-great-britain/from-outside-the-eu Here are the free IMBD data sets used by Matt in his problem: https://www.imdb.com/interfaces/ And if you'd like to find out which Muppet you definitely are you can speed ahead of Matt and Bec, and find that out here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jenlewis/which-muppet-are-you If you've got a problem or a solution, hit us up on our website aproblemsquared.com. You can buy A Problem Squared 'DING' t-shirts here https://a-problem-squared.teemill.com. And if you want want even more from A Problem Squared, find us on Twitter and Instagram. Lees meer
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052 = Piping Hot Baths and Predicting With Graphs
6 februari 2023 · 55 min
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🛀 How do you keep a bath warmer for longer?
💼 Matt solves a problem about business.
🗞️ We have some AOB.
🪵 And a brand new stumpdate!
If you've got a problem or a solution, hit us up on our website aproblemsquared.com.
You can buy A Problem Squared 'DING' t-shirts here https://a-problem-squared.teemill.com.
And if you want want even more from A Problem Squared, find us on Twitter and Instagram.
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051 = Have We Hit 1 Mil Yet and Should Yer Toothbrush Feel Wet?
16 januari 2023 · 51 min
In THIS very meta episode... Lees meer
* Did Matt forecast a million downloads correctly?
* When should your toothpaste be wet?
* And there's some Any Other Sizeness.
You can find 'Fibonacci New Year' from @ayliean on Tiktok right here: https://www.tiktok.com/@ayliean/video/7183451455569923355.
You can also find her on Twitter!
And if you want to listen to Bec officially beef with Joel & John of The Deam Factory, you can do that here: https://shows.acast.com/dreamfactory/episodes/who-brings-a-ball-to-war-ft-bec-hill
If you've got a problem or a solution, hit us up on our website aproblemsquared.com.
You can buy A Problem Squared 'DING' t-shirts here https://a-problem-squared.teemill.com. And of course, if you want want even more from A Problem Squared, find us on Twitter and Instagram.