This is the problem with trying to make maths problems “relevant”. It can crop up in Physics too. This: http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~steve/astrophysics/webpages/barometer_story.htm is a story I first r… (View Post)

The route was picked to maximise travel time so we could sleep on the trains. (View Post)

There is quite a bit of maths involved in cooking of course; cutting a pizza into seven equal pieces while ensuring that everyone gets their fair share of pineapple chunks is a non trivial task... (View Post)

The Italian leg of the trip went (from memory): Brindizi, Venice, Naples, Switzerland, Rome, Piza, and then on to Nice. (View Post)

I remember those. I think for an exclamation mark you typed a full stop, went back a space and then typed an apostrophe. The great thriller writer Elmore Leonard once said that exclamation marks shou… (View Post)