{"id":3459,"date":"2023-11-13T14:30:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T19:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/?page_id=3459"},"modified":"2023-11-23T08:36:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T13:36:49","slug":"math-chat-archives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/math-chat-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"MathChat Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frank Morgan’s<\/a> Math Chat<\/em> Archives<\/h3>\n
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Math Chat started as a live call-in cable TV show<\/a> in Williamstown (1996-97, January 2000) and Princeton (1997-98), ran as a regular column in The Christian Science Monitor (1996-1998), continued on the Mathematical Association of America website, and finally became The Math Chat Book<\/a> with a $1000 Math Chat Quest<\/a>. Most of the columns are archived here.<\/p>\n

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Baseball’s Million Dollar Prize and Goodbye<\/a><\/h3>\n

May 2, 2002<\/p>\n

Vanishing From the Face of the Earth<\/a><\/h3>\n

April 18, 2002<\/p>\n

Arranging Marriages<\/a><\/h3>\n

April 4, 2002<\/p>\n

Proofs for Everyone<\/a><\/h3>\n

March 21, 2002<\/p>\n

One Random Person<\/a><\/h3>\n

March 7, 2002<\/p>\n

Guessing the Red Card<\/a><\/h3>\n

February 21, 2002<\/p>\n

The Loudest Sound<\/a><\/h3>\n

February 7, 2002<\/p>\n

Palindromic Years<\/a><\/h3>\n

January 17, 2002<\/p>\n

If We Had Two Suns<\/a><\/h3>\n

January 3, 2002<\/p>\n

Once in a Blue Moon<\/a><\/h3>\n

December 20, 2001<\/p>\n

World Series<\/a><\/h3>\n

December 6, 2001<\/p>\n

Inexplicable Cheeseburgers<\/a><\/h3>\n

November 15, 2001<\/p>\n

The Ideal TV<\/a><\/h3>\n

November 1, 2001<\/p>\n

Space Curving Back<\/a><\/h3>\n
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October 18, 2001<\/p>\n

Childhood Math Memories<\/a><\/h3>\n
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October 4, 2001<\/p>\n

Bridge Voids<\/a><\/h3>\n
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September 18, 2001<\/p>\n

Fractional Magic Square<\/a><\/h3>\n
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September 6, 2001<\/p>\n

Pizza Pie<\/a><\/h3>\n
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August 16, 2001<\/p>\n

Berkeley Hills<\/a><\/h3>\n

August 2, 2001<\/p>\n

Numbers on your Computer Screen<\/a><\/h3>\n

July 19, 2001<\/p>\n

Married Couples at a Party<\/a><\/h3>\n

July 5, 2001<\/p>\n

A Mathematician at Heaven’s Gate<\/a><\/h3>\n

June 21, 2001<\/p>\n

Bees and Beijing in One Hour?<\/a><\/h3>\n

June 7, 2001<\/p>\n

Making Change<\/a><\/h3>\n

May 17, 2001<\/p>\n

The Largest Number<\/a><\/h3>\n

May 3, 2001<\/p>\n

293 Ways to Make Change for a Dollar<\/a><\/h3>\n

April 19, 2001<\/p>\n

Old Coins<\/a><\/h3>\n

April 5, 2001<\/p>\n

Russian Roulette<\/a><\/h3>\n

March 15, 2001<\/p>\n

Our Favorite Tax<\/a><\/h3>\n

March 1, 2001<\/p>\n

Fibonacci Surprise<\/a><\/h3>\n

February 15, 2001<\/p>\n

Well Arranged Sequences<\/a><\/h3>\n

February 1, 2001<\/p>\n

Repeating Digits<\/a><\/h3>\n

January 18, 2001<\/p>\n

Square Earth<\/a><\/h3>\n

January 4, 2001<\/p>\n

Surprising Math<\/a><\/h3>\n

December 21, 2000<\/p>\n

Ordering Candidates on Ballots<\/a><\/h3>\n

December 7, 2000<\/p>\n

Presidential Election and the Length of the Shortest Piece<\/a><\/h3>\n

November 16, 2000<\/p>\n

How to Split Your Vote<\/a><\/h3>\n

November 2, 2000<\/p>\n

Should Nader Voters Flip a Coin?<\/a><\/h3>\n

October 19, 2000<\/p>\n

Chance of Bank Balance $0.00<\/a><\/h3>\n

October 5, 2000<\/p>\n

Too Much to be a Coincidence?<\/a><\/h3>\n

September 21, 2000<\/p>\n

How to Play Fair With Loaded Dice<\/a><\/h3>\n

September 7, 2000<\/p>\n

Magician’s Solution From Math Olympiad<\/a><\/h3>\n

August 17, 2000<\/p>\n

US Third in Math Olympiad<\/a><\/h3>\n

August 3, 2000<\/p>\n

Which One Is Older?<\/a><\/h3>\n

July 20, 2000<\/p>\n

The Winning Voting System<\/a><\/h3>\n

July 6, 2000<\/p>\n

The Ideal Voting System<\/a><\/h3>\n

June 22, 2000<\/p>\n

Primes and Composites<\/a><\/h3>\n

June 1, 2000<\/p>\n

Millionaire’s Paradox<\/a><\/h3>\n

May 18, 2000<\/p>\n

Who Wants to be a Millionaire?<\/a><\/h3>\n

May 4, 2000<\/p>\n

“Average” Temperature<\/a><\/h3>\n

April 20, 2000<\/p>\n

Pens and Crystals<\/a><\/h3>\n

April 6, 2000<\/p>\n

Beeneet Kothari Wins First $1000 National High School Calculus Student Award<\/a><\/h3>\n

March 29, 2000<\/p>\n

Double Bubble Conjecture Proved<\/a><\/h3>\n

March 18, 2000<\/p>\n

Replacing Iowa and New Hampshire<\/a><\/h3>\n

March 2, 2000<\/p>\n

Brightest Moon for Thousands of Millennia?<\/a><\/h3>\n

February 17, 2000<\/p>\n

Mathematics Meetings Feature Proof of Dodecahedral Conjecture by Undergraduate Sean McLaughlin<\/a><\/h3>\n

February 3, 2000<\/p>\n

$1000 High School Calculus Student Award<\/a><\/h3>\n

January 6, 2000<\/p>\n

It Can Take a While to Wander Home<\/a><\/h3>\n

December 16, 1999<\/p>\n

The Best Two Points in a Square<\/a><\/h3>\n

December 2, 1999<\/p>\n

The Real Y2K Problem<\/a><\/h3>\n

November 18, 1999<\/p>\n

Once in a Millennium<\/a><\/h3>\n

November 4, 1999<\/p>\n

$200 Double Bubble New Challenge<\/a><\/h3>\n

October 7, 1999<\/p>\n

Decibels<\/a><\/h3>\n

September 14, 1999<\/p>\n

Humanity’s Life Span<\/a><\/h3>\n

September 2, 1999<\/p>\n

Guessing the Prime Number Theorem and Treacherous Logic<\/a><\/h3>\n

August 19, 1999<\/p>\n

Mathfest ’99: Primes and Prizes<\/a><\/h3>\n

August 5, 1999<\/p>\n

Bray Proves Penrose Conjecture in General Relativity<\/a><\/h3>\n

July 15, 1999<\/p>\n

Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture Proved<\/a><\/h3>\n

July 1, 1999<\/p>\n

Hales Proves Hexagonal Honeycomb Conjecture<\/a><\/h3>\n

June 17, 1999<\/p>\n

Why It’s Hard to Fold a Triangle in Half<\/a><\/h3>\n

June 4, 1999<\/p>\n

The Mathematician in the Desert<\/a><\/h3>\n

May 20, 1999<\/p>\n

Why is the Mathematician So Messy?<\/a><\/h3>\n

May 6, 1999<\/p>\n

Identical Calendars for 2000<\/a><\/h3>\n

April 15, 1999<\/p>\n

Shortest Enclosures on Surface of Cube<\/a><\/h3>\n

April 1, 1999<\/p>\n

Which Countries Are Most Like Stars?<\/a><\/h3>\n

March 18, 1999<\/p>\n

Readers Fault One-Page Proof of Fermat<\/a><\/h3>\n

March 4, 1999<\/p>\n

One-Page Proof of Fermat?<\/a><\/h3>\n

February 18, 1999<\/p>\n

Burning 1-Hour Fuses in 45 Minutes<\/a><\/h3>\n

February 4, 1999<\/p>\n

Unlucky in Cards<\/a><\/h3>\n

January 21, 1999<\/p>\n

Rolling a Die Until Every Face Has Appeared<\/a><\/h3>\n

January 7, 1999<\/p>\n

America’s Favorite Number<\/a><\/h3>\n

December 17, 1998<\/p>\n

From Galaxies to Electrons<\/a><\/h3>\n

December 3, 1998<\/p>\n

Losing Each Mile But Winning the Marathon<\/a><\/h3>\n

November 19, 1998<\/p>\n

One Trip to the Attic<\/a><\/h3>\n

November 5, 1998<\/p>\n

Dear Marilyn, About Leap Years<\/a><\/h3>\n

October 14, 1998<\/p>\n

The First Mathchat–Father’s Day Puzzler<\/a><\/h3>\n

June 14, 1996<\/p>\n

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Older MathChats from The Christian Science Monitor<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The King Was in His Counting House…<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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October 1, 1998<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

Taking Mt. Everest Down a Peg<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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September 17, 1998<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

Putting Slippers On for That Morning Commute<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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August 20, 1998<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

Red Herrings And Young Children<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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July 23, 1998<\/span><\/p>\n

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New Number Symbols For a New Millennium<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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July 9, 1998<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

If You Could Design Your Own Numbers<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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June 25, 1998<\/span><\/p>\n

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Crossing a Rickety Bridge at Night By Flashlight<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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June 11, 1998<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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A Weight-Loss Formula for Space<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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May 28, 1998<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Shifting River Beds And Earthquakes<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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May 14, 1998<\/span><\/p>\n

Which Three States Meet Three Times?<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

April 30, 1998<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Lining Up Your Ducks Is More Difficult Than It Appears<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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April 16, 1998<\/span><\/p>\n

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That Shifting First Day of Spring<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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March 19, 1998<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Alien Mathematics and First Day of Spring<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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March 3, 1998<\/span><\/p>\n

Old Milk Bottles and Hotel Expenses<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

February 18, 1998<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Milk-Bottle Pressure And Adding Hymns<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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February 3, 1998<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Prime Numbers and Adding Hymns<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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January 16, 1998<\/span><\/p>\n

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Today’s Late Sunrise<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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January 2, 1998<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Roads, Tennis, and the Sun<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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December 19, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mirrors and Roadways<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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December 5, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Halloween Cards, Sprinklers, & Mirrors<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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November 14, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Halloween Card Games And Spinning Sprinklers<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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October 31, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

Double Bubbles And Presidential Elections<\/a><\/h3>\n
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October 25, 1997\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rearranging Letters And Spinning Sprinklers<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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October 17, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Personal Accounts and Folded Paper<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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October 3, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Stepping on the Gas And Decoding the Bible<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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September 19, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n

Zeros, Ping-Pong Balls, And Acceleration<\/a><\/h3>\n

September 5, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n

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It’s All in the Name Old challenge<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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August 22, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Ping-Pong Balls and Presidents’ Names<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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August 8, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Trick Coins and Ping-Pong Balls<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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July 25, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Northwest to the Pole And Two-Headed Coins<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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July 11, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n

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Powers of 5 and Traveling To the North Pole<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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June 27, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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65-m.p.h. Speed Limits, Large Primes, and Japanese Exams<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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June 13, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n

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On Four 4s And Speed Limits<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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May 23, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Census Challenges<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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May 9, 1997\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Accurate Census Taking And Orderly Ants<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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April 25, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Computers, Free Will, And Marching Ants<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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April 11, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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The Family Photo and Counting on One Hand<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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March 28, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Where Will the New Millennium Begin?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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March 14, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n

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Symmetries and The Millennium<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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February 28, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Dice and Valentine’s Day Symmetries<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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February 14, 1997<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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World Population and Four Dice<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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January 31, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Airplane Weight And World Population<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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January 17, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Making a Better Calendar<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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January 3, 1997<\/p>\n

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Water Levels And Calendars<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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December 20, 1996<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Daylight Saving Time And Water Levels<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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December 6, 1996<\/span><\/p>\n

Hours, Days, and Years<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

November 22, 1996<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

Presidential Elections, Challenges of the Years<\/a><\/h3>\n

November 8, 1996<\/p>\n

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Checkerboards and Fences<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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October 11, 1996<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Coins, Prime Numbers, And Checker Boards<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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September 27, 1996<\/p>\n

Prime Number Digits<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

September 13, 1996<\/span><\/p>\n

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Marbles and Change<\/a><\/h3>\n

August 30, 1996<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Stationary Suns and Kings and Queens<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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August 16, 1996<\/p>\n

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Where Does The Sun Rise?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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July 19, 1996<\/span><\/p>\n

If a Ball Goes Up, When Must It Come Down?<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

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