Article 6PQXM Can you solve it? Are you smarter than an English major?

Can you solve it? Are you smarter than an English major?

by
Alex Bellos
from on (#6PQXM)

Acquaint yourself with matters mathematical

UPDATE: Read the solutions here

With apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan, but I meant the other type of English major: a person who studied English at university.

American maths author Ben Orlin has a new book out aimed at this demographic. (More on this below.)

the sum of all squares from 1 to 100

the sum of all cubes from 100 to 200

17% of 32

32% of 17

3997/4001

4996/5001

the square root of 6

the cube root of 15

the number of seconds in a year,

the number of hours in a millennium

2100

545

Continue reading...
External Content
Source RSS or Atom Feed
Feed Location http://feeds.theguardian.com/theguardian/science/rss
Feed Title
Feed Link http://feeds.theguardian.com/
Reply 0 comments