If this competition were held in Swedish, one could probably make up something funny about “liggande stolen”, which means “the lying chair” (with the meaning of “to lie down”, not “to tell a lie”!). That’s the Swedish name for the method of long division that used to be taught in schools until a few years ago (nowadays they apparently only teach short division). http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liggande_stolen
Mathematics under the Microscope
“A photograph of Professor Sacha Ivanovitch Stulov, a few minutes after being appointed chairman of the mathematical faculty.”
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Seat of the rulers
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and the chair of the hypotenuse
By: Tom Franklin on November 21, 2010
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By: peter on November 21, 2010
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Seat of the rulers
By: ผลบอล on November 25, 2010
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If this competition were held in Swedish, one could probably make up something funny about “liggande stolen”, which means “the lying chair” (with the meaning of “to lie down”, not “to tell a lie”!). That’s the Swedish name for the method of long division that used to be taught in schools until a few years ago (nowadays they apparently only teach short division).
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liggande_stolen
By: Hans Lundmark on November 28, 2010
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“This would be the best approximation to the saddle point I can produce”
By: Francisco Macias on November 30, 2010
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Women also do math — but they are invisible.
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