Archive for the ‘Word Fun’ Category
Sunday, March 14th, 2010
Happy Pi Day, everyone! Today I have a special treat. I had the opportunity to interview Pi poet, Mike Keith. Mike is into constrained writing and Pi, among other things. Mike recently published a book, Not A Wake, that demonstrates the constrained writing:
A collection of short stories, poetry, plays, puzzles, ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Ok, so this is not Math-related but I did discover it in the book Fun With Mathematics. The book, by the way, which is out of print and only available used, is definitely worth a couple of bucks plus the shipping cost.
So, what do the following words have in common?
playgrounds
dumbwaiters
workmanship
republicans
sympathizer
Yes, ...
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
Well, this post is not so “mathy.” It’s about anagrams, which are permutations of the letters of one or more words, and about a fun site to play with generating anagrams.
If you take the letters of my name, Sol Lederman, and rearrange them one of the many possible phrases is ...
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