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Volume 83 - March 1999

Matters for debate

Some more decimal points

Notes

83.01 Logarithms

83.23 Prime decades

83.49 Symmetric cubic functions and inequalities

83.02 Thermodynamic proofs and their history

83.50 Recent formulae for π: arctan revisited!

83.24 Characterising non-trapezoidal numbers

83.25 Descending to the irrational

83.51 On a theorem of Brianchon and Poncelet

83.03 A teaching note on Dijkstra’s shortest path algorithm

83.26 More on Estermann and Pythagoras

83.52 A faster convergence to Euler’s constant

83.04 A generalisation of a curious sum

83.53 A circuitous way to differentiate sin θ

83.27 Integer solutions of a-2 + b-2 = d-2

83.05 Magic rectangles

83.28 After Fermat, yet another equation

83.54 Almost pavings of patios

83.06 A further generalisation of the Fermat-Torricelli point

83.29 The convergence of a Lucas series

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Volume 83 - March 1999

Matters for debate

Notes