John Conway, inventor of the Game of Life, died recently from covid-19 complications.

Not many people know this, but one of the vast number of things that he investigated in his life was peg-games.

I thought of him and his math when I found, in the southwestern room of Ceporah Tower on Arteum, a half-played peg-game:


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I wrote these at: forum.thegamecreators.com.
Because of this, they are very DarkBasic centred.
I'm archiving them here in case they get lost.( Read more... )

So I'm sure everyone asks themselves this: when's the best time to buy gas ( Read more... )

"Giant zigzag, sitting on two symbols separated by a scarab's butt." - The diagram is three lines high, and displayed as an image. What does it MEAN? How, using the tools available, can we find out?

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So, I was thinking about Counting Rhymes. Eenie, meenie...

And I realized that the ideal (for the singer) counting rhyme has one more beats than a number with many prime factors.( Read more... )

If you have a bunch of lights in series, and you know the mean time before failure (MTBF) per lightbulb, how do you calculate your overall MTBF? Or, same question, but substituting "lifetime" for "MTBF ( Read more... )

So, you're in a spaceship travelling near the speed of light (aka "c")- you can't travel at c, that's not possible, but you can get close ( Read more... )

Ingredients on my chilli con carne tin are object oriented.
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We can answer this by using "simple common knowledge". Or at least, we can use a simple Google search to answer each sub-question.
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