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Tricky Dice Revisited The game involves a set of four cubic dice, each one numbered differently. You let your opponent pick any one of the four dice. You choose one of the remaining three. Each player tosses his or her die, and in a game involving 10 or more turns, you will nearly always have more wins...   |
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Binary Dice Wei-Hwa Huang has simplified dice and created a new set of mind teasers and games. |
Science News
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Sound-Byte Math Music Swedish composer Daniel Cummerow has created mathematical sound bytes belonging to a category known as algorithmic music. Each musical fragment is determined by a mathematical recipe -- a formula that links digits with musical notes and their duration... |
Smithsonian
February 2006
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Mozart: In Search of the Roots of Genius On the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, the author scours Salzburg and Vienna for traces of the master's mischievous spirit. |
PC Magazine
April 20, 2005
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Insert Alternate Blank Rows in Excel I have an Excel report that fills about 1,000 rows. I want to insert a blank row between each of these rows. Obviously, I know how to insert a row one at a time, but is there a quicker way to do this? |
Science News
July 12, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Improving the Odds in RISK RISK is a classic board game of global conquest. First published in 1959, this war game remains popular and continues to attract mathematical attention. Recent analyses reveal that the chances of winning a battle are considerably more favorable for the attacker. |
Searcher
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Music to Soothe the Savage Searcher: Classical Music Databases and Web Resources A review of Web databases and related online resources covering the European classical musical traditions from Mozart's musical antecedents up to contemporary composers. |
