When do People Arrive to Lectures?
Today, in my Statistics and Probability course, I arrived to the lecture an hour early. So I decided to record the arrival times of every person to this lecture and…
Constructing a primitive Rubik’s Cube permutation
In my Algebra class recently, I was wondering if it was possible to make a sequence of moves such that you can keep repeating this sequence (e.g. R U2 F…
Why You Shouldn’t Speed (with mathematical proof)
Consider the scenario where you need to drive 100 km. For the first 50 km you are stuck in traffic so you are able to drive 50kmph. Then, for the…
The Day the Lottery Got Too Expensive for Grandma
"Back in the day, I’d grab one of those lottery tickets every Friday, and it only cost four bucks. Just the other day, I went down to the kiosk again,…