![]() Furthermore, this week sees the last quarter of the Fall 2019 A to Z under way. When I do, and when I have the whole week’s strips to discuss, I’ll have it at this link. I write this not having had the chance to read Saturday’s yet. I know how our kind thinks.) Or it might be trolling know-it-alls into correcting them.Īnd this covers things through to Friday’s comics. He’ll just talk a confident game long after everyone else has stopped really listening. Or it could be an extra joke on how often the know-it-all, really, does not. This could be a slip on the cartoonists’ part that got past their editors too. Jeffrey Caulfield and Alexandre Rouillard’s Mustard and Boloney for the 7th uses a knowledge of mathematics as shorthand for general knowledge. Jason Chatfield’s Ginger Meggs for the 7th is the sudoku joke for the week. Greg Evans’s Luann Againn for the 6th - a repeat of Luann from the 6th of November, 1991 - sees Gunther thinking out walking to Luann’s house in the language of a word problem. Let me here share the comics that just mentioned mathematics, then, and save the heavy stuff for a bit later on.īill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes repeat for the 5th has Calvin seeking help with an arithmetic problem. It’s pleasant, fun exercise.Īs will sometimes happen it’s inconvenient for met to write up a paragraph or two on the particularly mathematically significant comic strips of the past week. And from thinking how we might vary the rules about how to arrange numbers. So we get enlightenment in those from considering these. But they do connect to other problems, such as sudoku, or knights-tour and similar problems of chess piece movement. Latin Squares are one of those corners of mathematics I haven’t thought about much. So what the paper does is look at different types of Latin Squares, and whip up some new ones by imposing new rules. If you have the numbers from 1 to 10 you can make a ten-row, ten-column magic square, again with each number appearing once per row and column. Like, if you have the whole numbers from 1 to 5, you can make a five-row, five-column magic square, with each number appearing once in each row and column. A Latin Square is an arrangement of numbers. Fun with Latin Squares, by Michael Han, Tanya Khovanova, Ella Kim, Evin Liang, Miriam (Mira)Lubashev, Oleg Polin, Vaibhav Rastogi, Benjamin Taycher, Ada Tsui, and Cindy Wei, appears to be the result of a school research project.
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