Our final session of MathsJam 2024 begins with @Pecnut, who tried to compare packs of tomatoes in a Californian supermarket and got confused - in the US, pre-packed fresh veg can be sold by both mass and volume inconsistently, including the use of the perplexing "dry pint"! 1/5

Facing a problem with needing to represent too many layers of geographical features while working with a en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_fi… Miles describes how the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon… came to the rescue. 5/5

Hope you've seen and done lots of fun stuff this weekend! Don't forget to share anything fun you've seen/done (with permission of anyone featured!) using the hashtag #mathsjam, and check out what others have been sharing too. 1/2

We start this session with @Tony_Mann, who has recently learned about the remarkable number TREE(3), and shares his findings - enjoy these Numberphile videos: youtube.com/watch?v=3P6DWAww… youtube.com/watch?v=IihcNa9Y… 1/4

Alex shows using a probabilistic method that 10 points can always be covered, and shares a set of 45 points that cannot be covered. For more, read this paper: 2012.cccg.ca/papers/paper13.… 3/4

Starting the next session, @Andrew_Taylor shares some quirks of the way computers do arithmetic - including a value called "minus zero", and another that's not equal to itself. He looks at how and why compromising on the normal rules can actually make computers more useful... 1/5

Our next talk is from @Keke_Thom, sharing a series of Venn Diagram poems linked to a DARE art residency with Opera North, University of Leeds and the National Science and Media Museum. 4/5