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Hourly Hectoc Bot<p>Hi <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@seism0saurus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>seism0saurus</span></a></span></p><p>Thank you for your answer.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.seism0saurus.de/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.seism0saurus.de/tags/mentalcalculator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mentalcalculator</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.seism0saurus.de/tags/hectoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hectoc</span></a></p>
Hourly Hectoc Bot<p>Hello,<br>Here is a new hectoc challenge for you:</p><p>215836</p><p>The goal is to combine the 6 numbers to a total of 100. You can use the mathematical operations + - * / ^ and the parenthesis ( ). Numbers can be combined, but you have to use all 6 of them and are not allowed to change the order. See <a href="https://hectoc.seism0saurus.de" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">hectoc.seism0saurus.de</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> for an example. Please use CW "solution".</p><p>Have fun! Your hourly hectoc bot<br>by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@seism0saurus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>seism0saurus</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.seism0saurus.de/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.seism0saurus.de/tags/mentalcalculator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mentalcalculator</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.seism0saurus.de/tags/hectoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hectoc</span></a></p>
Prof. Bholanath Dutta<p>Can you SOLVE this? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> 👉🙋</p>
Una<p>Integrals are fun </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a></p>
Alameda Post<p>Jeff Smith's Math Puzzle for April 4, 2025 - A heptagon posing as a septagon enters baggage claim area. <a href="https://alamedapost.com/features/puzzles/math-puzzle-for-april-4-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alamedapost.com/features/puzzl</span><span class="invisible">es/math-puzzle-for-april-4-2025/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/alameda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alameda</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/MathPuzzle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MathPuzzle</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/puzzle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>puzzle</span></a></p>
Mina<p><a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Math</span></a>⁣ematicians never run out of <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/chocolate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chocolate</span></a></p>
Hourly Hectoc Bot<p>Hi <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@seism0saurus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>seism0saurus</span></a></span></p><p>Good solution.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.seism0saurus.de/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.seism0saurus.de/tags/mentalcalculator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mentalcalculator</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.seism0saurus.de/tags/hectoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hectoc</span></a></p>
Hourly Hectoc Bot<p>Hello,<br>A new hectoc for you:</p><p>236129</p><p>The goal is to combine the 6 numbers to a total of 100. You can use the mathematical operations + - * / ^ and the parenthesis ( ). Numbers can be combined, but you have to use all 6 of them and are not allowed to change the order. See <a href="https://hectoc.seism0saurus.de" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">hectoc.seism0saurus.de</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> for an example. Please use CW "solution".</p><p>Have fun! Your hourly hectoc bot<br>by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@seism0saurus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>seism0saurus</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.seism0saurus.de/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.seism0saurus.de/tags/mentalcalculator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mentalcalculator</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.seism0saurus.de/tags/hectoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hectoc</span></a></p>
Fractal Kitty<p>I have posted the 238th Carnival of Mathematics!</p><p><a href="https://www.fractalkitty.com/238th-carnival-of-mathematic/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">fractalkitty.com/238th-carniva</span><span class="invisible">l-of-mathematic/</span></a></p><p>If I missed something please let me know. </p><p>There is an extremely slow bit of javascript for untouchable numbers that hopefully won't make the post untouchable. </p><p>Thank you <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@aperiodical" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aperiodical</span></a></span> for organizing this.</p><p>This month we have posts from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@mjd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mjd</span></a></span> Peter Cameron, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@two_star" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>two_star</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@j2kun" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>j2kun</span></a></span>, Brian Clegg, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@fortnow" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fortnow</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@KarenCampe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>KarenCampe</span></a></span>, Amédée d'Aboville, Ed Vogel, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@standupmaths" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>standupmaths</span></a></span> </p><p>There was also an amazing amount of math and art being shared on blueSky with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@Ayliean" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Ayliean</span></a></span> 's math art March prompts</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/carnivalOfMathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>carnivalOfMathematics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/indieweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/blogCarnival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blogCarnival</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maths</span></a></p>
NiceMicro<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@25admins" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>25admins</span></a></span> I generally like to point out when people incorrectly call something that is "big" as "exponential".</p><p>In today's episode <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@jimsalter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jimsalter</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@allanjude" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>allanjude</span></a></span> almost called technical debt "exponential", but then they decided to say "compounding", which is funny, because "compound interest" is the type of change that IS exponential 😂 </p><p>Exponential growth is when same interval -&gt; same ratio of change. Exponential is not "big". A constant 0.1% interest rate is also exponential.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a></p>
Pat<p>I've made a fraction-based calculator, for simplifying rational expressions (written in ANSI-C using vi)</p><p>I was aiming to merge a scientific calculator with "bc", because I often need to simplify various fractions and whatnot. Quite happy with the result!</p><p>Uses shunting yard algorithm to evaluate the expressions, and a naive descent parser (I think?) to tokenise</p><p>Aside: OpenBSD's "editline" is very easy to use</p><p>Please ask any questions :)</p><p><a href="http://patpatpat.xyz/data/frac" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">patpatpat.xyz/data/frac</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/c" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>c</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/bsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unix</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a></p>
silas<p>A free book about Graph Theory and Additive Combinatorics.</p><p><a href="https://yufeizhao.com/gtacbook/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">yufeizhao.com/gtacbook/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://bertha.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>book</span></a> <a href="https://bertha.social/tags/graph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>graph</span></a> <a href="https://bertha.social/tags/graphtheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>graphtheory</span></a> <a href="https://bertha.social/tags/computerscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computerscience</span></a> <a href="https://bertha.social/tags/combinatorics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>combinatorics</span></a> <a href="https://bertha.social/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://bertha.social/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a></p>
Hourly Hectoc Bot<p>Hi <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@seism0saurus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>seism0saurus</span></a></span></p><p>Great answer.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.seism0saurus.de/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.seism0saurus.de/tags/mentalcalculator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mentalcalculator</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.seism0saurus.de/tags/hectoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hectoc</span></a></p>
paigerduty<p>last night I went on a wiki walk starting with Donald Knuth's impressive body of work and the title of his novelette "Surreal Numbers" piqued my interest</p><p>this led me down a delightfully confusing but fascinating peek into the weird side of math ft. The Monster, Baby Monster, magic squares and phrases that cracked me up like "weakly inaccessible cardinal"</p><p>def gave me a new perspective on cardinality which I mostly deal with in the practical sense with system telemetry 😅 </p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a></p>
Hourly Hectoc Bot<p>Hello,<br>The hectoc of the hour is:</p><p>668336</p><p>The goal is to combine the 6 numbers to a total of 100. You can use the mathematical operations + - * / ^ and the parenthesis ( ). Numbers can be combined, but you have to use all 6 of them and are not allowed to change the order. See <a href="https://hectoc.seism0saurus.de" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">hectoc.seism0saurus.de</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> for an example. Please use CW "solution".</p><p>Have fun! Your hourly hectoc bot<br>by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@seism0saurus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>seism0saurus</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.seism0saurus.de/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.seism0saurus.de/tags/mentalcalculator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mentalcalculator</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.seism0saurus.de/tags/hectoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hectoc</span></a></p>
⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯<p>Derivation of the Trump Tariff Equation.</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meme</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>memes</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a></p>
Prof. Bholanath Dutta<p>Can you SOLVE this ? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> 🙋</p>
Alex Fatty B<p>Ça part en légende 👌</p><p> ! BOOK US 4 MORE !</p><p><a href="https://beacons.ai/serumfi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">beacons.ai/serumfi</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rock</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/duo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>duo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/serumfi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>serumfi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/drums" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drums</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/guitar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guitar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/punk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>punk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tourlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tourlife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/musician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musician</span></a></p>
Prof. Bholanath Dutta<p>Can you SOLVE this ? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> 🙋</p>
kat<p>"Let ε&lt;0 represent the elasticity of imports with respect to import prices" </p><p>" The price elasticity of import demand, ε, was set at 4." </p><p>eh! 🤯 <a href="https://is.burntout.org/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://is.burntout.org/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://is.burntout.org/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://archive.ph/5onM8#selection-1191.137-1191.193" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.ph/5onM8#selection-119</span><span class="invisible">1.137-1191.193</span></a></p>