Mathematicians have long pondered the reach of a grazing goat tied to a fence, only finding approximate answers until now. Here’s a simple-sounding problem: Imagine a circular fence that encloses one ...
A viral math equation with two solutions confused Facebook users. A seemingly simple math problem went viral on YouTube because of two different versions of the order ...
We know from Dyson that there are 18 digits in the solution. (We’ll come back later to the mystery of how he knew that in the first place.) Let’s represent each of these digits with the first 18 ...