Primes
The reminders about Amazon Prime day got me thinking about Prime Numbers. Whilst I was coding a power efficient “blink” for a new 4Tronix board I joked that it was not calculating primes. But then I thought, “why not?” I
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Tags: Mathematics, primes
Cutting stock
For my current welding project, a series of security grills for a mate’s shed I need to cut a select of bars to length. I needed 2 x 479mm and 2 x 1199mm bars.The stock I had left over from
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Tags: cutting stock, Mathematics, Metal
Metal solids of constant width
I’ve mentioned before when I was looking at measuring tools, John Bryant and Chris Sangwin and the book “how round is your circle”. One of the interesting items from the book was a selection of metal objects that had constant
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Tags: magic, Mathematics
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
