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It's not based on stereotypes of Texas and Texans, but rather of the Wild West - as in the location of cowboy movies. There exists equivalent phrases refering to the Wild West dire…

The keyboard part will help quite a bit, at least. Being from Norway, the occasional æ-ø-ås are quite revealing.

EDIT3: 233/114 should be 233/144, and it's off by ~10^{-5}

I apologize for the vagueness. "Hardest to approximate" does require certain definitions first. The reasoning behind this is simple continued fractions, ie. fractions like a_0 + 1/…

Good point. The reason why few to no plants are not black is a very interesting problem, which I haven't heard an answer to. Still, the number phi has very unique properties, consi…

I only meant it as a possible explanation for why it wouldn't be unreasonable to think phi appears often in nature. I don't really have enough knowledge of nature to say if it's th…

I don't know about limbs, but it could explain sunflower seeds and branches of trees. If they are distributed with a period, every n'th time around they will shade for other seeds …

The fibonacci spirals _are_ something special. The simple continued fraction of the golden mean is [1;1,1,...], and its convergents (the sequence of fractions that best approximate…

[white] as a catchall is a bit misleading. Perhaps a different border color or an asterisk inside the square to clearly mark that it's not an actual white block?

Amazing game! On the "Fort" level, the map [blue][white]->[blue] removes the [blue] block, rather than the [white]. This is a different behavior than the map [red][red]->[blue], wh…

Can't this be partially solved by just throwing multiple dices? E.g two 6-sided dices would then have a higher chance of 7 than 12.

It doesn't change the sleep patterns, but would you say it does not make a difference in judging at which hours other people sleep?

I find this a really good argument for it: how are you supposed to know if you call somebody in the middle of the night, if it's noon where you are, and the hour is the same? By ha…

I read logicalee's comment as a reference to the way most (all?) branches of mathematics may be built using sets and their axioms. Set theory boils down to "in the set" and "not in…

For your first suggestion, I dusted off some old code and modified it slightly: http://pastebin.com/qV8fU1a4 It should keep the layout as is, while only adding color, but I have on…

In Norway, we have BankID as well (works well on mac/chrome, though), but we also have a choice to use non-java MinID ("MyID") for logging in to do taxes/healthcare/education/etc. …