Answer: A Caternary The best jokes are the ones you have to look up the answer on Wikipedia to get. I prefer the one that postures “Which would a logician… [read full post]
Riddle: What kind of cat can grin?
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101010 = 42
Mr. Burstein points out that today is 10/10/10 – and 101010 in binary is 42! (42, besides being the ultimate answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and… [read full post]
Dodgson “perched in the middle” of the “two chunks” in the history of voting math
Lewis Carroll and the Liddell family made the July 26th 2010 issue of the New Yorker in reference to his work on election mathematics. Anthony Gottlieb, in his article in… [read full post]
Remembering Martin Gardner
With great sadness we note the passing of Martin Gardner this past Saturday, May 22, 2010, in Norman, Oklahoma at the age of 95. Martin Gardner was not only a… [read full post]