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Submission + - Two snowflakes may be alike after all

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21, 2007 @02:32PM

An anonymous reader writes: LiveScience is reporting that it may be possible for two snowflakes to be alike after all. For anyone who studies probablity, this seems reasonable, given that the article mentions that 10^24 snowlfakes fall in any given year. The article cointains links to fascinating snowflake pictures.

Submission + - Can we find a man with just a photo and a name?

Submitted by

MikeJ

on Sunday January 21, 2007 @05:14AM

MikeJ writes: "Mind Candy, the makers of Perplex City, are testing the power of the Internet by asking that very question; they have recruited one of Earth's 6 billion residents — a man named Satoshi — to participate in this experiment.

It has been suggested that we are each only five to seven people away from any target in the world. Someone, somewhere, knows Satoshi — so we must track these people, and thus Satoshi, down using word-of-mouth communication. People from over 80 countries are already participating in the hunt, with more joining every day. Can you help find Satoshi?"

Submission + - Art Imitates Math

Submitted by

drDugan

on Sunday January 21, 2007 @04:03AM

drDugan writes: "http://bp0.blogger.com/_151Bi4ZK2YE/Ra82EnddyOI/AA AAAAAABIw/GBsAr6TLhio/s400/TuppersFormula.gif

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TuppersSelf-Referenti alFormula.html

A mathematical formula that maps the cartesian plane to boolean, and creates a picture of the formula.

Math->Art->Math. Wow."

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