As my first semester of college comes to a close, it is astonishing to look back on all that I’ve learned. However, despite not taking a math class this semester, one thing that I seemed to learn a ...

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The ratio of the number of yellow circles to the number of white circles is 1 : 4. For each yellow circle there are 4 white circles. The ratio 3 : 12 is equivalent to 1 : 4 because for each yellow ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza is often treated as a monument of stone, but it also functions as a monument of numbers. I see at ...

“Do you see the pattern? Each number in the series after the first two numbers is the sum of the preceding two numbers.” That’s how I began my last column focusing on the Fibonacci sequence, which ...

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