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Cool

One of the other articles referenced, about De Bruijn sequences, is much more interesting http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/october22013/index.html

There are many, many, other cool articles on the site. http://www.datagenetics.com/blog.html Once you start reading, you'll spend the rest of the day!

"The top of the Golden Gate Bridge is almost two inches wider at the top than the base because of the curvature of the Earth" http://datagenetics.com/blog/june32012/index.html

Thanks, I also liked reading the last article about ice cream. Your articles remind me how much calculus/math I have forgotten since leaving school and, sadly, how little use there…

Err, are you sure about that? It touches at one point, so that makes it a tangent, so it's perpendicular to the circle. I think it it a right angle. (This is the internet, so I'm s…

If you read to the bottom of the cylinder article, there's a link to another blog post by the same guy about other Martin Gardner puzzles, and the 'band around the Earth' puzzle is…

I think you have a typo, it should be 'loose' not 'lose'