The Math Factor

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**The Math Factor**

A brief, weekly math conversation and puzzle, airing on KUAF 91.3 FM, Fayetteville Arkansas. Send your answers, comments, questions, puzzles, or cash, to mathfactor@uark.edu!

Latest Episodes:

FA. The Johnsons Feb 12, 2009

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We revisit an old chestnut.

EZ. A Special Double Feature Feb 02, 2009

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Our servers are back up, after an astounding ice storm that shut down the town; we celebrate with a special double feature: "Google, Flutes and Monopoly" and the very first Math Factor Episode ever aired.

EY. Vth Anniversary Special Jan 21, 2009

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Our Fifth Anniversary Special! Come visit our brand new, totally fair casino!

EX. Gamblers Ruin Jan 05, 2009

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Shortly after taping this segment, Kyle and Chaim suddenly hit on a great way to make huge amounts of money. We'll offer you a terrific opportunity you can't refuse in next week's segment!!

EW: What's The Difference? Dec 22, 2008

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Isaac Newton's puzzling polynomial problem!

EU. Stacking Cannonballs Dec 10, 2008

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Pascal's has so many strange and amusing applications!

ET. Your Holiday Gift Guide Dec 01, 2008

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Our favorite new and not-so-new products for 2008! Check out Zome, Puzzellations, DROD, Magic Mirror Coloring Book, The Riddles of the Sphinx, the Nikoli puzzle company, The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, How Round is your Circle and many more ideas!

ES. The Ishango Bone Nov 11, 2008

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Dirk Huylebrouck discusses the incredible Ishango bone, and thousands of years of arithmetic.

ER. The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search Nov 04, 2008

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Just two months ago, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, discovered a huge prime number, with more than ten million digits! Mersenne primes are closely related to the famous "perfect" numbers, numbers which are the sum of their divisors.

EQ. Ed Pegg Returns Oct 22, 2008

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Ed Pegg, of mathpuzzle.com, joins us to discuss cellular automata and a fiendishly difficult puzzle.