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Stringer’s theorem

Stringer’s Conjecture

He’s not in the honors program. His papers, one teacher says, are a mess. In a school where the best and brightest are well dressed, he wears tatty running shoes, jeans, and a brightly colored T-shirt. But Rob Stringer, a high school geometry student in this upscale Boston suburb, has come up with something unknown since Euclid first discovered geometry. With the aid of a computer program developed by researchers at the nearby Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University, he has hit upon a previously unknown geometrical theorem for dividing a triangle into smaller triangles of equal size.

https://sites.google.com/site/geogebrainstituteofiowa/-stringer-s-conjecture

napier’s bones

napier's bones
A set of Napier’s Bones

Yesterday visited Traquair House near Innerleithen. They have a set of Napier’s Bones on display. The above set of calculating aids may have been used by JN himself according to a note in the display case.

Wolfram.com on Napier’s Bones
Wikipedia on Napier’s Bones
Nrich on Napier’s Bones

Also on display was this abacus

abacus
An abacus

morphic resonance

another kind of resonance following on from yesterday’s metronomes

rupert sheldrake doesn’t really explain how the rats pick up on the what other rats have learned in the present not to my mind anyway but really fascinating all the same