MelbMathsJam

@pickover 3628800, and that's from memory!

This is a mathematics joke. bit.ly/3bDZVka

@carlostph @pickover Not quite. It's only equivalent if there's no bottom on the two-handled cup. Answer is 3.

@pickover 2 holes... homeomorphic to a 2 handle cup

Mathematics and mystery. The debate rages on. "Found this while shopping. How many holes does it have?" tinyurl.com/y97fmj56

@pickover 3 holes, or genus 3. It's equivalent to the two-handled cup someone posted BUT only if there's a hole in the bottom of the cup too. Imagine the most obvious hole through the centre was filled in. It still has an extra hole because a loop is formed around that central beam.

@pickover Although I no longer know anyone's phone number, I do know 10 factorial off the top of my head, and this looks about right.

This is the mathematics joke triggering shock and awe among its viewers. A shattering odyssey of self-discovery, joy, and transcendence.

@FryRsquared Better than "Cook the books" I suppose!

I love it SO MUCH!!

@standupmaths Don't forget you have to apply the multiplication tap before the addition tap.

I love the maths symbol theme to this hotel’s bathroom fittings. But I don’t know why they mixed a multiplication ‘×’ tap with a plus ‘+’ tap!

@MathsJam does anyone have a solution to this puzzle? We only found a degenerate one where one of the triangles flattens to a line.

Melbourne MathsJam tomorrow night! meetup.com/Melbourne-Math…

Melbourne MathsJam coming up this Tuesday, in person! meetup.com/Melbourne-Math…

We're going live again! Melbourne MathsJam will be in-person this Tuesday at Captain Melville. meetup.com/Melbourne-Math…

Now discussing the question: What is the longest path from one point to another, given that you always have to move closer to the second point? What shapes can we trace out?

We also enjoyed this paradoxical quiz question: twitter.com/lancegharavi/s…

Tonight we're having fun constructing shapes with ruler and compass, using the website sciencevsmagic.net/geo

April mathsjam is now scheduled in Zoom. Meeting ID will be 758856126. Time on the East coast of Australia is GMT minus ten hours and daylight saving will have ended for us by then. See you next month!

Tonight we are discussing slide rules and Napier's bones, plus @RobertCWebb is showing off his models of 4D polytopes. software3d.com/Gallery.php

Tonight Melbourne MathsJam is joining up with Sydney for an online 'Jam! We have some visitors from NZ and London as well, so not only interstate but international!

Melbourne MathsJam is on tonight at the usual time and place. (7pm @CaptainMelville) See you there for puzzles, games, maths banter and chicken parma!

#mathsjam ok we figured it out! This is the misleading step.

#mathsjam But... but... we followed the instructions!

@LONMathsJam @MathsJam Ah OK. Yeah we debated just how creative we were allowed to be. The trig answer is perfect, but ceiling etc make it too easy, eg 6 + 6 - 1 - floor(sqrt(sqrt(7)))

@MelbMathsJam @MathsJam Yes - I think I misremembered that one - what we actually had was: ceiling((6-1)!/(7+6))

@MathsJam anyone manage to make 10 from 6, 1, 7, 6 without being TOO creative? And anyone figure out the combining rule puzzle?