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-------------------------Trivia #194--------------------- `X` is a prime number such that `X^4 + 3` is also a prime. What is the value of `...

This blog post is the first for the Block Model Series. In this particular post, Math Trivia will be giving you an overview of what the Blo...

-------------------------Trivia #193--------------------- For some integer `a`, the equations `2016x^2 + ax + 6102 = 0` and `6102x^2...

-------------------------Trivia #192--------------------- A secret formula contains 37.5% of Chemical X and 62.5% of Chemical Y. When 12mL ...

-------------------------Trivia #188--------------------- It takes 45 minutes to move upstream in a river and 20 minutes less to move down...

-------------------------Trivia #182--------------------- What is the domain of the function `f(x) = (arccos (ln(x))) / (x^2 - 1/2)` ? -...

--------------------------Trivia #133--------------------- Let `q = .123456789101112...997998999` where the digits are obtained by writin...

Abstract. We give a quick tour through some topics in analytic prime number theory, focusing in particular on the strange mixture of order...

The word algebra is a Latin variant of the Arabic word al-jabr . This came from the title of a book, Hidab al-jabr wal-muqubala , writte...

The proof starts from the Peano Postulates, which define the natural numbers N. N is the smallest set satisfying these postulates: P1. ...