• Question: What’s your weirdest memory associated with maths?

    Asked by Andrea on 1 Jan 2020.
    • Photo: Gary Munnelly

      Gary Munnelly answered on 1 Jan 2020:


      Pretty much anything Matt Parker does on YouTube gives me weird maths memories. Like the time he computed Pi using pies. Or the time he used Excel to render raster images. Or the time he and Helen Arney sang a googol.

      Why Matt? Why?

    • Photo: James Bentham

      James Bentham answered on 2 Jan 2020:


      Being driven to a conference with an escort from the Cameroonian army

    • Photo: Maja Popovic

      Maja Popovic answered on 6 Jan 2020:


      When I was in (mathematical) high school, I thought that I invented a trigonometric/radian clock:

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