AA. The Way Out of the Forest

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AA. The Way Out of the Forest

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Oct 3, 2005

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Which way leads out of the forest of Liars & Truth-tellers? This is the first episode on the Mathfactor CD, and the first mathfactor episode podcast to the world! For more information, listen to the podcast and send us an email!

The Mathfactor is broadcast each Sunday morning on KUAF 91.3 FM, in Fayetteville Arkansas.

Released:

Oct 3, 2005

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Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

A brief, weekly math conversation and puzzle, airing on KUAF 91.3 FM, Fayetteville Arkansas. Send your answers, comments, questions, puzzles, or cash, to mathfactor@uark.edu!

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AC. No Vacancy: A hotel with an infinite number of rooms... by The Math Factor
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AN. More Sucker Bets: Is there always a better choice? by The Math Factor
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AM. Arrow's Theorem: Can A be better than B, B be better than C and C be better than A? No voting system will ever be fair! by The Math Factor
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AB. The Rational Ruler: Finer and finer, a ruler with infinitely many marks... by The Math Factor
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AD. Bigger and Smaller Infinities: Are there only half as many even numbers as counting numbers? by The Math Factor
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AE. The Jalopy: What is "average?" by The Math Factor
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AA. The Way Out of the Forest: Which way leads out of the forest of Liars & Truth-tellers by The Math Factor
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AY. Dollar Cost Averaging: A common investment strategy takes advantage of the subtleties of averaging. by The Math Factor
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AI. Census Taker's Puzzle: More puzzles from the Mathfactor, featuring the mathematical stylings of KUAF's Kyle Kellams and Chaim Goodman-Strauss. by The Math Factor
4 min listen
AF. Counting All: Are the rationals rational? by The Math Factor
8 min listen
AQ. The Principle of Indifference Redux: The solution to the balls puzzle and a quick puzzle about cards. by The Math Factor
4 min listen
AO. Choosing Balls from A Bag: A fifty-fifty chance of drawing four blue balls from a bag: how many balls were blue? by The Math Factor
3 min listen
AG. The Eagle: How far does the eagle fly as it makes an infinite series of shorter and shorter trips? by The Math Factor
6 min listen
AH. QED: In this "secret track", we show there are vastly more real numbers than rationals! by The Math Factor
5 min listen
AJ. The Pop Quiz: Why 462 is the least interesting number less than 1000, and the students get a paradoxical pop quiz. by The Math Factor
5 min listen
BM. An astronomical cost!: The conclusion to the banana & camel puzzle. by The Math Factor
7 min listen
AU. Dennis Shasha asks about Polish Multiplication: Dennis Shasha, puzzle columnist for Scientific American, asks about a curious way to multiply numbers on your fingers. by The Math Factor
4 min listen
BF. Catching Errors: Credit card numbers have an error catching code, that uses the tricks of the last few weeks. by The Math Factor
5 min listen
AR. Quick Game: Two players take turns removing coins from a line; how can the first player always be sure to have at least as much money as the second? by The Math Factor
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AV. Dennis Shasha Answers: The solution is a quick bit of algebra, but how do you explain it on the air? by The Math Factor
5 min listen
AL. Rumors and suckers: In which we show gossip is unreliable and how you can always fleece a sucker. by The Math Factor
6 min listen
AK. Paradoxes and Liars: The mathematics of gossiping! by The Math Factor
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BK. Bananas and Rockets: A classic puzzle reveals why rockets require so much fuel, even for wee payloads. by The Math Factor
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AS. A Puzzle From Peter Winkler: Peter Winkler, author of "Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection", asks how many coins are needed to cover a table. by The Math Factor
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AX. Averages are not what they seem!: Is a man of perfectly average height, and perfectly average weight, too heavy for his size? Averages are not what they seem to be. by The Math Factor
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AW. Will we run out of Social Security Numbers?: When will the crisis come? When will we run out of Social Security Numbers, and other musings. by The Math Factor
5 min listen
BO. When did you say?: The solution, and a very easy puzzle. by The Math Factor
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BH. The Poincaré Conjecture: Jeff Weeks, author of "The Shape of Space", discusses the hypersphere and the famous Poincaré Conjecture! by The Math Factor
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BE. Trap door encryption: Is this podcast legally a "munition"? Old ideas in number theory are the basis for a whole new class of powerful encryption schemes that underlie the modern internet economy. by The Math Factor
10 min listen
AT. Peter Winkler Answers: Peter Winkler answers. Another puzzle next week! by The Math Factor
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GY. Conversation with Greg Chaitin: A conversation with Greg Chaitin, creator of Chaitin's Omega and author, most recently, of MetaMath!! These ideas are well worth a close listen. by The Math Factor
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GW. Wolfram's Principle of Computational Equivalence: Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and author of A New Kind of Science describes a fundamental principle, showing how irreducible complexity arises even in simple systems. by The Math Factor
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AA. The Way Out of the Forest

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