Submitted by Sumanth:
Report: Small online news sites more proven than large ones. It’s good to be a small online media outlet as long as you cover something you can make money on — that’s the un (Read More). (Read More)
News from the world of maths:
The government has revealed plans for a new maths GCSE to become available in 2010, as well as a pair of twinned maths GCSEs to be introduced in 2015 — over ten years after their recommendation by Adrian Smith in his Making mathematics count report. The twinned GCSEs are designed to give students a broader groundi (Read More)
News from the world of maths:
If you are a regular Plus reader who enjoys the weird and wonderful world of mathematics, then you may be interested in helping Plus secure its future. We are launching a campaign to raise the funds we need for the continued development and production of Plus beyond 2009.As you may know, Plus receives no statutory funding a (Read More)
News from the world of maths:
The two major events over the last couple of months have been the credit crunch and the US presidential election. We take a mathematical view of both of these, muse over the surprising effectiveness of maths when it comes to describing the world we live in, and scrutinise some mathematical philosophy. Plus the usual mix of (Read More)
The Great Beyond:
Researchers in the US have released the latest figures comparing the maths and science abilities of 4th- and 8th-grade students in countries across the globe.Far Eastern countries dominate the top tens, with Singapore top for science in both 4th and 8th grade. In maths, Hong Kong tops the 4th grade scores, with ‘Chinese Tai (Read More)
Submitted by Komakino
from blog:
Mind-bending programatic image manipulation. Just drag images directly into the source code to use them as input.
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News from the world of maths:
The science of complexityWhat do the human brain, the Internet and climate change have in common? They're all hugely complex, and while they're very different, the tools used to grapple with this complexity are likely to be similar. We visited the Cambridge complex systems consortium, dedicated to building an over-arching s (Read More)
Submitted by Sumanth:
The "Vedic Mathematics" is called so because of its origin from Vedas. To be more specific, it has originated from "Atharva Vedas" the fourth Veda. "Atharva Veda" deals with the branches like Engineering, Mathematics, sculpture, Medicine, and all other sciences with which we are today aware of.This wonderful method is re-in (Read More)
News from the world of maths:
It may come as a surprise that your average proof in an academic journal is riddled with holes. Authors gloss over details, appeal to pictures, even intuition, and take hidden leaps of logical faith that, philosophically speaking, aren't entirely justified. These days mathematics contains proofs so long and complex that few (Read More)
Submitted by Sumanth:
Recurring Number MagicEffectYou write down the following 8 digit number on a piece of paper:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9Then ask a friend to circle one of the digits. Say that they circle number 7.You then ask your friend to multiply the 8 digit number by 63, and magically the result ends up being: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9x (Read More)
: @sumanth Thanks for remembering me! So, what are you guys working on? I don't log on through the Home page often, but it looks different. Did you make some changes? lol
: @michaelfidler, I am basically very much fond of maths and tricks like this also. So, I thought i share and find some friends. About socialmeidan, nothing much you didn't know is going on. Yeah on home page we changed it a bit. Widget is changed to obama whitehouse on the right hand side panel. removed links for mmf events etc they are minor.
Submitted by Sumanth:
Neat TrickPersonally I would like to know who came up with this. It is pretty amazing.1. Grab a calculator. (you won't be able to do this one in your head)2. Key in the first six digits of your mobile number OR First three digits of ur landline (excluding area code)3. Multiply by 804. Add 15. Multiply by 2506. Add the last (Read More)