Category Archives: Maths

Occupy Tom Nook

Posted on 29 June 2013 by Spuggy

A pre-print of an article soon to appear in the prestigious Mushroom Kingdom Journal of Socioeconomics. Occupy Tom Nook

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Google Search Q&A 4 – A beginner’s guide to set theory

Posted on 9 March 2013 by Spuggy

According to our site stats, almost two thirds of visitors to our site are looking for information on sparrows. Don’t believe me? Here is a graph of the search strings that have found our site, grouped by whether or not … Continue reading →

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Maps! Wait, they don’t love you like I love you! Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaps!

Posted on 12 January 2013 by Spuggy

Sadly, my original plan to show the flow of transport around Frankfurt over the course of a day failed due to the extreme lack of availability of timetable data in a halfway reasonable format. So instead, here’s some maps of … Continue reading →

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Fractal cross-stitch / counted-thread embroidery patterns

Posted on 5 January 2013 by Spuggy

Also, staying on the topic of maths, a little while ago, I put some stitching patterns for a couple of fractals, the Sierpinski triangle and the Pythagoras tree, up on Etsy. They didn’t really sell very well, and rather than … Continue reading →

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Frankfurt Maths 2: A cunning marketing scheme (and/or a way to massively inconvenience the disabled)

Posted on 5 January 2013 by Spuggy

If you’ve spent more than about seventeen seconds in Frankfurt, you’ll have met the Escalator Fairy: the strange malevolent force that ensures that there will always, always, always be at least one broken escalator between you and your destination – … Continue reading →

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Solving the Börneplatz Problem

Posted on 18 September 2012 by Spuggy

Last night, I blogged about an inefficient bit of track design at Börneplatz in Frankfurt. And to make it EVEN MORE exciting, I left… A CLIFFHANGER.

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The Börneplatz Problem

Posted on 17 September 2012 by Spuggy

This is a little maths problem I was thinking about on the tram back today. Until recently, there were two tramlines running through the centre of Frankfurt, the 11 and the 12. The two lines follow the same track through … Continue reading →

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