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New Monday Math Madness contest #5 coming up

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

On Monday I'll be hosting the next Monday Math Madness contest. The current contest, hosted at Blinkdagger, got a whopping 103 submissions but only 37 of these were correct. So, this problem ended up being trickier than expected. Blinkdagger should be announcing their winner soon and on Monday I've got ...

Blinkdagger hosting Monday Math Madness #4

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Check out Blinkdagger. These guys had way too much fun writing up this problem. One of the things we do when we come up with these contest problems is that, when we don't make them up ourselves, we rewrite them so a Google search won't yield the answer. Quan and Daniel ...

We have a winner for Monday Math Madness #3

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

We have a winner for the third Monday Math Madness contest. It's Johan Potums. Congratulations, Johan! I'll be contacting you about your prize. Blinkdagger has a very interesting new contest problem that they'll be posting Monday. Seventeen people submitted entries. Everyone got the right answer and explained their answer well. Everyone realized ...