Updated: 2023-08-31 15:32:32
Recently, I decided to stop avoiding puns and childish math jokes. So I am posting a lot of famous jokes I have heard before but never added to my collection. * * * —What are ten things you can always count on?—Your fingers. * * * —Why should you never mention the number 288?—Because it’s […]
Updated: 2023-08-20 13:56:36
I’ve been collecting math jokes for many years, but I was avoiding puns, mostly because of my English. Puns are among the most difficult things to master in a language. Here are some punny jokes that I finally understand. * * * —Who invented the Round Table?—Sir Cumference. * * * —Why didn’t the hyperbola […]
Updated: 2023-08-18 16:20:19
I was browsing my analog archives, my high-school notes, and stumbled upon a couple of problems from a math battle we had. Puzzle. A square is divided into 100 pieces of the same area, in two ways. Prove that you can find 100 points such that each piece in the first division has a point […]
Updated: 2023-08-16 15:32:33
* * * A math problem is the only place where a person buys 7744 watermelons for dinner, but no one knows why! * * * Today I saw a tweet from someone I knew in middle school. He tweeted, “I turned my life around 360 degrees!” Now do you see why it is important […]
Updated: 2023-08-15 17:40:54
I used to love math problems about weighing things. But then I got distracted by my own personal scale with its slowly rising numbers. However, having recently lost a few pounds, I want to get back to other scales! Puzzle. You have a balance scale that is broken in a consistent way: if you put […]
Updated: 2023-08-14 00:00:05
A link is defined as two closed curves in three-dimensional space. The first picture shows an example of a link with one yellow curve and one blue. The linking number is a simple numerical invariant of a link. Intuitively, it represents the number of times that each curve winds around the other. For example, if […]
