The Telephone Numbers – Graph Theory The telephone numbers are the following sequence: 1, 1, 2, 4, 10, 26, 76, 232, 764, 2620, 9496… (where we start from n=0). This pattern describes the total number of ways which a telephone exchange with n telephones can place a connection between pairs of people. To illustrate this […]
Happy Numbers Happy numbers are defined by the rule that you start with any positive integer, square each of the digits then add them together. Now do the same with the new number. Happy numbers will eventually spiral down to a number of 1. Numbers that don’t eventually reach 1 are called unhappy numbers. As […]
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Statistics to win penalty shoot-outs With the World Cup upon us again we can perhaps look forward to yet another heroic defeat on penalties by England. England are in fact the worst country of any of the major footballing nations at taking penalties, having won only 1 out of 7 shoot-outs at the Euros and […]
This carries on the previous investigation into Farey sequences, and is again based on the current Nrich task Ford Circles. Below are the Farey sequences for F2, F3 and F4. You can read about Farey sequences in the previous post. This time I’m going to explore the link between Farey sequences and circles. First we […]
Modelling more Chaos This post was inspired by Rachel Thomas’ Nrich article on the same topic. I’ll carry on the investigation suggested in the article. We’re going to explore chaotic behavior – where small changes to initial conditions lead to widely different outcomes. Chaotic behavior is what makes modelling (say) weather patterns so complex. f(x) […]
