Who doesn’t love a good math holiday? Most people know about Pi Day (3/14), but there are even rarer days on the calendar ...
A pattern or a sequence is a set of numbers that are connected in some way. All sequences have a rule. For example, sometimes the numbers might count on by 5 each time, other times they might be ...
A linear sequence goes from one term to the next by always adding (or subtracting) the same value. The number added (or subtracted) at each stage of the linear sequence is called the common difference ...
A 'simple' math sequence has left the internet puzzled, proving that it may be far more complex than it appears at first glance. The mathematical brain teaser, posted by X user Bholanath DuttaFounder, ...
The last day of the year comes with a peculiar numerical sequence: 12/31/23, or if you look a little closer, 123123. Sunday marks Dec. 31, 2023, a date that we won't see again until 2123. And ...
One of the curious properties of mathematics is its beauty. But exactly what mathematicians mean by beauty is hard to capture. Perhaps the most famous example is Euler’s relation, e iπ + 1 = 0, which ...
CERTAIN quadratic series abound in prime numbers 1. Take, for example, the following Sequence in which the consecutive differences are 2, 4, 6, 8, etc. These are all prime numbers; the next term in ...