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The Bits Come Out to Play Again
The bit-player website has been suffering from neglect and loneliness; it’s the Tamagotchi I failed to nurture. I write this post—my first in almost two years—to announce that bit-player is coming back from the not-quite-dead. I have rebuilt the infrastructure of the site, and new stories are on the way.
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Kenken-Friendly Numbers
Kenken is the funny-page puzzle that allows the number nerds among us to strut their stuff. And it’s not limited to the integers 1 through 6 or the operations +, –, ×, ÷.
We Gather Together…
At the Thanksgiving table I thought I heard someone ask, “Please pass the Covid.”
The Writing on the Wall
Haunted graffiti: Reminders of lives lived and lost long ago.
The Short Arm of Coincidence
Can a factorial number cozy up to a perfect square, so that \(n! + 1 = m^2\)? Three examples are known. Are there more? The answer is a definite maybe.
Sunshine In = Earthshine Out
Computer models of the Earth‘s climate have become forbiddingly complex, but even a simplistic program reveals interesting behavior.
Pretirement
As I kid I believed that retirement is wasted on the old, who no longer have the spunk needed to enjoy it. My views have changed as I’ve aged. So have demographic trends in employment.