Tennis Alice, Bob, and Charlie play tennis matches consisting of one set only: two of them play a set and the winner stays on the court for the next set, with the loser replaced by the player who was idle. At the end of the day Alice played 15 sets, Bob played 14 sets, and Charlie played 9 sets. Who played in the 13th set?
Presented by Rebecca Buchan This workshop was designed to educate participants on their personality preferences and characteristics as framed within the structure of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. Objectives included: Incorporating MBTI into various areas of interpreting & Gaining an understanding and new appreciation for their personality type and the…
Presented by Rebecca Buchan This workshop was designed to educate participants on their personality preferences and characteristics as framed within the structure of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. Objectives included: Incorporating MBTI into various areas of interpreting & Gaining an understanding and new appreciation for their personality type and the…
Lydia Short, Patricia Oakley, and Sarah Rody explored musical representations of fractals.
Seven mathematics majors graduated on April 22, 2010.
Birthday December 1 Problem. My creativity has run dry. So, here is a problem sent to me by Ginny Nunemaker (originally from her son Ken). Computers usually represent color using a hexadecimal value for each primary color (red, green and blue). The range for each color is "00" to "FF" ;. In this system, how many color combinations are there?
After 25 years of service to Goshen College, Ron Milne retires.
Students devised new numeration systems and explained to each other how arithmetic works in their numeration system.
Seth Unruh worked on characterizing envy-free allocations in an inheritance problem.
May 2009 Mathematical puzzles for your intellectual amusement. April 29 Problem. In honor of Ron Milne's retirement, the following problem involving bicycles and geometry is offered. It turns out that bicycles with square wheels can work fine – as long as the road is appropriately constructed. Can a suitable road be constructed for a bicycle with equilateral triangle wheels? If so, how? If not, why not?
