td.cent { text-align: center; } I’m a football fan… well, more specifically the NFL. I hear that colleges other than the one I went to actually have their own teams and that quite a lot of people think that the outcomes of these “college football...

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – I like math. Now, don’t get me wrong; I don’t run around solving Fermat’s Last Theorem for fun on Sunday nights, or anything like that. Perhaps it would be more clear to say I enjoy math, for many reasons,...

li { padding-bottom: 3px; } About two years ago, I got interested in Geocaching1. I call it “organized littering”. Essentially, people have taken the time to hide caches (usually tupperware containers full of bric-a-brac) all over the world. They...

li { padding-bottom: 3px; } A lot of math is broken down into processes. Start with a problem, do this, do that and, voila, you have the answer. Most people in America learn the same processes for doing most basic arithmetic, and it’s easy to forget...

li { padding-bottom: 3px; } Someone over at Stetson University1 has compiled a list of numbers2 with the reasons they might be termed “special”. Some of these reasons are out there, and maybe a little contrived, but I’ve found a few that I like. ...