BJ. The Most Powerful Force

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BJ. The Most Powerful Force

FromThe Math Factor

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Oct 11, 2006

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Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe. He didn't really say that, but the sentiment is valid. If you compound more and more frequently, is there a limit on the interest one can earn?

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Oct 11, 2006

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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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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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AQ. The Principle of Indifference Redux: The solution to the balls puzzle and a quick puzzle about cards. by The Math Factor
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AH. QED: In this "secret track", we show there are vastly more real numbers than rationals! 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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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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AB. The Rational Ruler: Finer and finer, a ruler with infinitely many marks... by The Math Factor
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AG. The Eagle: How far does the eagle fly as it makes an infinite series of shorter and shorter trips? 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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AK. Paradoxes and Liars: The mathematics of gossiping! by The Math Factor
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AC. No Vacancy: A hotel with an infinite number of rooms... 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
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AL. Rumors and suckers: In which we show gossip is unreliable and how you can always fleece a sucker. by The Math Factor
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AE. The Jalopy: What is "average?" by The Math Factor
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BI. The Shape of the Universe: Jeff Weeks tells us about the hypersphere, the Poincaré conjecture and the topology of the universe! by The Math Factor
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BM. An astronomical cost!: The conclusion to the banana & camel puzzle. by The Math Factor
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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
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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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BT. A Runcinated Dodecaplex: We visit a giant model of a four-dimensional polyhedron, made of the fabulous Zome math construction toy. Paul Hildebrandt, president of Zome, weighs in. by The Math Factor
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AT. Peter Winkler Answers: Peter Winkler answers. Another puzzle next week! by The Math Factor
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AF. Counting All: Are the rationals rational? 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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BF. Catching Errors: Credit card numbers have an error catching code, that uses the tricks of the last few weeks. 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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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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BL. Eternally diminishing returns: With enough time and patience and bananas, can we go as far as we please? 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
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CE. Big Numbers: Some Very Large Numbers and we announce our new website, mathfactor.uark.edu! 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
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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
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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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BJ. The Most Powerful Force

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