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	<title>The Secret Garden of Maths</title>
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	<description>Maths to the Masses</description>
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		<title>The Shrinking Square</title>
		<link>http://www.mickybullock.com/blog/2010/02/the-shrinking-square/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geometry]]></category>

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Problem: The area of the green square is two-fifths of the area of the whole diagram. What fraction of the whole diagram is the sum of the areas of the four black triangles?
Click &#8216;Read more&#8217; below to play with a Java applet that should help you to understand the problem.
Answer &#38; analysis soon!


  Please upgrade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas in Numbers</title>
		<link>http://www.mickybullock.com/blog/2009/12/christmas-in-numbers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micky</dc:creator>
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Happy Christmas from The Secret Garden of Maths!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8428406.stm
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		<title>No-Numbers Geometry</title>
		<link>http://www.mickybullock.com/blog/2009/11/no-numbers-geometry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you work out the size of angle xº?

That&#8217;s a regular hexagon and a regular pentagon.  Good luck!
(Hint: Consider the size of the interior angles in a polygon, the sum of angles round a point, and the sum of angles on a line)
(This is my first post in quite a while &#8211; apologies for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Neat Visual Method for Multiplication</title>
		<link>http://www.mickybullock.com/blog/2009/10/a-neat-visual-method-for-multiplication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micky</dc:creator>
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		<title>Vacation Weight Loss!  You could lose grams!</title>
		<link>http://www.mickybullock.com/blog/2009/10/vacation-weight-loss-you-could-lose-grams/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mickybullock.com/blog/2009/10/vacation-weight-loss-you-could-lose-grams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to lose weight fast?  Then jump on a plane to the equator!

As our planet hurtles relentlessly through space, it rotates to give us night and day.  Although Earth takes 24 hours to make just one revolution, its sheer size means a person stood on the equator has angular speed of over 1000mph!!  Here in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day of the Devil</title>
		<link>http://www.mickybullock.com/blog/2009/10/day-of-the-devil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micky</dc:creator>
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I was very saddened to hear today of Stephen Gateley&#8217;s sudden death.  Stephen gave a huge amount to pop music and was an inspirational figure.  May he rest in peace.

Incidentally, today was a day of devil numerology:
11th October 2009 is 11/10/09
This morning we passed briefly through 08:07:06
and this afternoon we passed through 14:13:12
So we had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Trapezoid Trap</title>
		<link>http://www.mickybullock.com/blog/2009/10/the-trapezoid-trap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geometry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is this shape called?



The website that sells these &#8220;Nylon Trapezoid Multi-Color String Light Lanterns&#8221; indifferently claims to know.  The suffix &#8216;-oid&#8217;, from Greek &#8216;-oeides&#8217; means &#8220;of similar form to, but not the same as,&#8221; whatever precedes it, for example human/humanoid.  Here are a few more examples:

Asteroid (&#8221;like a star&#8221;)
Thyroid (gland shaped &#8220;like a thyreos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Folding a Trapezium: Solution</title>
		<link>http://www.mickybullock.com/blog/2009/09/folding-a-trapezium-solution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geometry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Geometric Secret of A4 Paper


Problem:
We wish to make two folds in a rectangular piece of paper to form a trapezium (or trapezoid for the chaps across the water).  There are infnitely many ways in which this may be achieved, but there is only one way that fits the following criteria:

The lower ends of the folds must be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Higher or Lower&#8221; &#8211; Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.mickybullock.com/blog/2009/09/higher-or-lower-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mickybullock.com/blog/2009/09/higher-or-lower-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher or Lower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Probability]]></category>

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In Part I we calculated the probability of winning a single-suit version of the Higher of Lower card game.  The objective of this post is to find the probability of winning the full, unsimplified, 4-suit version of the game played in pubs across the land.
I attended the pub quiz again this week out of curiosity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Higher or Lower&#8221; &#8211; Easy card game? Part I</title>
		<link>http://www.mickybullock.com/blog/2009/09/higher-or-lower-an-easy-card-game-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mickybullock.com/blog/2009/09/higher-or-lower-an-easy-card-game-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher or Lower]]></category>
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Click here for &#8220;ʜiɡher or ʟower&#8221; &#8211; Part ɪɪ
I was recently roped into joining some friends for a pub quiz.  I hate pub quizzes.  For a start, I don&#8217;t watch soaps or football or take any interest in divorcing celebrities.  The sum total of my contribution is usually a question about the periodic table and [...]]]></description>
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