In this, the penultimate episode of Wrong, But Useful, we’re joined by @karenshancock (who is Karen Hancock in real life). We discuss:
- A scoring system for an online quiz round.
- The Big Mathoff
- What is a surd?
- Currently reading Ratio by Michael Ruhlman - a cookery book that starts from the principles
- Some Noughts and Crosses variants
- Core maths festival
- (via @mathsTechnology/Tom Button) For any given cubic if a line intersects it at three points then the sum of the x-coordinates of these points will be constant.
- An infinite monkey music bot
- A fractal
- Odds and Evenings and Mathematical Objects
- Ending the podcast