http://kipliscage.powerblogs.com/ en-us 2006-10-22T17:10+00:00 http://kipliscage.powerblogs.com/posts/1149272963.shtml The solution to the May puzzle at Ponder This is up. Here are pictures of the six possible configurations; the red edges are the long edges in each configuration.... Kipli 2006-06-02T18:06+00:00 http://kipliscage.powerblogs.com/posts/1148860297.shtml Eight cubes are shown below; the faces of the cubes are colored either red, green or blue. Arrange the cubes to form a larger 2 by 2 by 2 cube so... Kipli 2006-05-29T00:05+00:00 http://kipliscage.powerblogs.com/posts/1148270676.shtml The June issue of Scientific American has an article on Sudoku, the number grid filling-in game that has swept the puzzle world.  (Personally, I find the puzzles tedious, but to... Kipli 2006-05-22T22:05+00:00 http://kipliscage.powerblogs.com/posts/1145313755.shtml Let `f` be a function that chooses a random integer from 1 to 100 (inclusive) with a uniform probability distribution. Then the probability that what `f` returns is an even integer... Kipli 2006-04-18T21:04+00:00 http://kipliscage.powerblogs.com/posts/1145248888.shtml In INTELLIGENT DESIGN THEORY AND THE SUPERNATURAL — THE “GOD OR EXTRA-TERRESTRIALS” REPLY philosopher Elliot Sober lays out an argument that he says "is not an argument that I am... Kipli 2006-04-17T04:04+00:00 http://kipliscage.powerblogs.com/posts/1144901028.shtml The number 7712, prime factorization `2^5 241`, appears in several integer sequences. An interesting one is A063776, the number of subsets of `\{1,2,...,n\}` which sum to 0 mod `n`.... Kipli 2006-04-13T21:04+00:00 http://kipliscage.powerblogs.com/posts/1144883472.shtml DaveScot at Uncommon Descent is now blaming judges for the lack of scientific research in intelligent design:... Kipli 2006-04-12T23:04+00:00 http://kipliscage.powerblogs.com/posts/1144785406.shtml William Dembski links here to a post on another blog about a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The Chronicle article discusses the dangers (and, unfortunately,... Kipli 2006-04-11T19:04+00:00 http://kipliscage.powerblogs.com/posts/1144354505.shtml KnotPlot is a wonderful program for generating, viewing, playing with knots. The program itself has been around for a while, but I first saw it yesterday at a talk on... Kipli 2006-04-06T20:04+00:00 http://kipliscage.powerblogs.com/posts/1144092581.shtml I helped judge a science fair this weekend, and in the process came across an instance of over-mathematization of the world.... Kipli 2006-04-03T19:04+00:00 http://kipliscage.powerblogs.com/posts/1143214047.shtml British actor/director/writer Stephen Fry is reportedly working on a film about Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.... Kipli 2006-03-24T15:03+00:00 http://kipliscage.powerblogs.com/posts/1143156318.shtml Swedish mathematician Lennart Carleson has been awarded the 2006 Abel Prize (BBC report). The award was based in large part on Carleson's work on Fourier series.... Kipli 2006-03-23T23:03+00:00 http://kipliscage.powerblogs.com/posts/1143090752.shtml A recent post, Ask Mathforge: What are the Odds? at mathforge.net asks a question about the game of High-Low. In the game, a card is turned over (from the... Kipli 2006-03-23T05:03+00:00 http://kipliscage.powerblogs.com/posts/1132372729.shtml Daniel Horsley, a doctoral student at the University of Queensland, Australia, has reportedly solved Lindner's conjecture on Steiner triple systems.... Kipli 2005-11-19T03:11+00:00 http://kipliscage.powerblogs.com/posts/1132204356.shtml The 193-digit number... Kipli 2005-11-17T05:11+00:00