jake baker’s maths blog

I have a student in Y10 who can recite pi to 200 places, after listening to the pi song rather a lot of times … (see http://pi.ytmnd.com/).  This led to reading more about how to calculate pi, and I found out about the Brent-Salamin algorithm, very clearly explained on Wikipedia.  I tried it out on [...]

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Mobile phones: we all use them, but how do they work? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone . Is this article helpful, in your opinion? Have you found any other websites which give useful information about mobile phones? Please add a comment, copying in the website address if you have.

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Here are two great sites to visit. The Simon Singh site includes a section on code-breaking. http://www.simonsingh.net/
The Clay Mathematics Institute site offers seven prizes of $1million for seven problems … http://www.claymath.org/
You might also like to see this video, which has nothing to do with maths …

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