| | Alan Kay on Donald Knuth (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 71 points by tosh on May 5, 2024 | past | 39 comments |
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| | In the year 1961, Edward Lorenz was running a computational model for weather (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 1 point by tosh on Jan 11, 2024 | past |
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| | Astronaut dropping hammer and feather on the Moon (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 3 points by antineutrino on June 21, 2023 | past |
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| | Illustrated icebergs often not stable (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 3 points by ano-ther on Feb 21, 2023 | past | 1 comment |
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| | Tupper's Self-Referential Formula (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 1 point by tosh on Oct 14, 2022 | past |
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| | Fermat's Library – interesting Twitter feed (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 2 points by chris_overseas on Sept 12, 2022 | past |
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| | The bug that cost $370M (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 1 point by ca98am79 on Nov 13, 2021 | past |
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| | Energy needed to brute-force a 256-bit key (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 3 points by sohkamyung on April 15, 2021 | past |
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| | A visual proof of the Square Binomial (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 2 points by sc90 on March 10, 2021 | past |
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| | Proof Tolkien's Middle-Earth is not flat: S. Weinberg, Gravitation and Cosmology (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 1 point by grlass on Sept 20, 2020 | past |
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| | No century begins with a Tuesday, Thursday, or Sunday (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 3 points by simonebrunozzi on Aug 26, 2020 | past |
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| | Anagrams (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 1 point by tosh on July 20, 2020 | past |
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| | Close to speed of light geometry becomes non-eulidean (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 2 points by seesawtron on July 18, 2020 | past | 1 comment |
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| | How to derive Electromagnetic Waves from Maxwell's equations in 1 Tweet (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 1 point by eusebio on Feb 27, 2020 | past |
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| | 357686312646216567629137 (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 5 points by tosh on Nov 10, 2019 | past |
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| | No Century in the Gregorian Calendar Begins with a Tuesday, Thursday, or Sunday (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 1 point by luisb on Sept 5, 2019 | past |
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| | There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible arrangements of a Rubik's cube (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 2 points by micaeloliveira on Aug 28, 2019 | past |
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| | How do Maxwell's equations predict that the speed of light is constant (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 1 point by eusebio on July 3, 2019 | past |
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| | The reason why the shape of a lot of pianos looks like an exponential (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 2 points by mosca on May 5, 2019 | past |
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| | A Peculiar Sorting Algorithm (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 1 point by farazzz on March 18, 2019 | past |
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| | Happy Pi(ttern) (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 2 points by antineutrino on March 14, 2019 | past |
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| | One 18 inch pizza has more 'pizza' than two 12 inch pizzas (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 7 points by slbenfica on Jan 7, 2019 | past | 2 comments |
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| | Mars' Olympus Mons is so massive that you can't see the summit from the base (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 1 point by slbenfica on Dec 13, 2018 | past |
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| | Every odd integer is the difference of 2 squares (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 2 points by jajag on Nov 22, 2018 | past |
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| | Every odd integer is the difference of 2 squares (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 3 points by slbenfica on Oct 31, 2018 | past |
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| | A good way to visualize factorial growth (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 1 point by slbenfica on July 4, 2018 | past |
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| | Some of the accomplishments of researchers at Bell Labs (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 1 point by slbenfica on June 20, 2018 | past |
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| | Euler's impact in Mathematics (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 1 point by slbenfica on June 11, 2018 | past |
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| | Back of the envelope proof that e^Pi is greater than Pi^e (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 3 points by slbenfica on May 18, 2018 | past |
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| | The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵×4⁴×3³×2²×1¹=86400000 milliseconds is exactly 1 day (twitter.com/fermatslibrary) |
| 361 points by slbenfica on May 16, 2018 | past | 189 comments |
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