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Posts by Karl Knechtel
I don't mean to be flippant but this is actually pretty straightforward. Of the top 10 cards (really any arbitrary 10-card subset, but this is simplest), suppose N are facing up; since 10 total ca...
My best offhand 960, achieved as $10 \times 8 \times 4 \times 3 = (7+9) \times 6 \times 5 \times 2 \times 1$. Mostly from trial and error: assuming that generally you get the biggest numbers thro...
As the one who originally proposed (and promptly more or less forgot about) Everyday Science (as it ended up being called), I strongly endorse this proposal, and can imagine that many of the sorts ...
As I understand it, this sort of thing fits well with what I had in mind, yes. I had already intended that the site would include practical economics questions related to household finance; underst...
Site Name Everyday Science Description For interdisciplinary questions about the world around us, examining reality from an XKCD perspective. Topics Topics covered would include: Lay scie...
