Monthly Archives: June 2006

MegaPenny Project

Posted on June 14, 2006 by Brent

How is your intuition for large numbers? If you read any sort of newspaper or magazine, or watch news on television, you can’t help but encounter really big numbers like 40 million, 3.2 billion, or 2 trillion. Do you REALLY … Continue reading →

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Challenge #5

Posted on June 11, 2006 by Brent

And now for something completely different… or is it? This problem comes from the ancient Greeks (Euclid, to be exact). Suppose you have a rectangle which is one unit tall and has this special property: if you cut off a … Continue reading →

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