The Math Factor
Summary: A brief, weekly math conversation and puzzle, airing on KUAF 91.3 FM, Fayetteville Arkansas. Send your answers, comments, questions, puzzles, or cash, to mathfactor@uark.edu!
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- Copyright: Chaim Goodman-Strauss and KUAF FM
Podcasts:
AQ. The Principle of Indifference Redux
AO. Choosing Balls from A Bag
AN. More Sucker Bets
AM. Arrow's Theorem
AL. Rumors and suckers
AK. Paradoxes and Liars
AJ. The Pop Quiz
The solution to the problem of the Three Gods: one always tells the truth; one always lies; one sometimes lies and sometimes tells the truth. When asked which is which, the one of the left says the one in the middle is the god of truth. The one in the middle says he sometimes lies and sometimes tells the truth. And the god on the right says the god in the middle is the god of falsehood. Who is who?
There are vastly many more real numbers than fractions! The MathFactor CD hidden track.
How to do infinitely many things in a few minutes!
Are there more fractions than counting numbers?
An old jalopy zooms up and down Arkansas hills...
Are there only half as many even numbers as counting numbers?
A hotel with an infinite number of rooms, all filled, but room for more?
Finer and finer, a ruler with infinitely many marks...
