Figuring It Out

1. The Dinner Table Algorithm
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2. Cutting the Christmas Cake
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3. Oranges and Computers
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4. When Two and Two Don’t Make Four
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5. Getting More Intelligent Every Day
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6. The Other Lane Always Goes Faster
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7. Shoelaces and Neckties
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8. Number Puzzles
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9. Tossing a Coin
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10. The Switch
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11. Eubulides, The Heap and The Euro
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12. How GPS Works
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13. Gear Wheels
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14. February 29
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15. The Nonius Scale
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16. Pedro Nunes’ Map
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17. Lighthouse Geometry
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18. Asteroids and Least Squares
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19. The Useful Man and the Genius
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20. Alice and Bob1

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21. Inviolate Cybersecrets
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22. Quantum Cryptography
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23. The FBI Wavelet
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24. The Enigma Machine
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25. The Vitruvian Man
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26. The Golden Number
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27. The Geometry of A4 Paper Sizes
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28. The Strange Worlds of Escher
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29. Escher and the Möbius Strip
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30. Picasso, Einstein and the Fourth Dimension
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31. Pollock’s Fractals
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32. Voronoi Diagrams
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33. The Platonic Solids
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34. Pythagorean Mosquitoes
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35. The Most Beautiful of All
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36. The Power of Math
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37. Doubts in the Realm of Certainty
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38. When Chance Enhances Reliability
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39. The Difficulty of Chance
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40. Conjectures and Proofs
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41. Mr. Benford
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42. Financial Fractals
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43. Turing’s Test
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44. DNA Computers
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45. Magical Multiplication
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46. π Day
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47. The Best Job in the World
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48. Electoral Paradoxes
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49. The Melon Paradox
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50. The Cupcake Paradox
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51. Infinity
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52. Unfair Games
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53. Monsieur Bertrand
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54. Boy or Girl?
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55. A Puzzle for Christmas
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56. Crisis Time for Easter Eggs
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Keywords: Mathematics, Mathematics, general, Popular Science in Mathematics/Computer Science/Natural Science/Technology