Malgosia Ip, Mathematics & Statistics editor In just over four weeks, your neighbourhood might be overrun by zombies. No, it’s not the end of the world. It’s Halloween: the one day of the year when it’s OK for your kids to wander the streets in search of a sugar high. But you’re not just any […]
by Jeremy Lane (Math & Stats editor) and Mykola Matvichuk 1. Using approximations by polygons in 250BC, Archimedes was the first person to compute an approximate value of pi. True or False? Answer: False. A collection of Sanskrit texts called the Sulbasutra dating back to 600BC (and arguably based on knowledge that had existed for […]
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