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Posts by Karl Knechtel‭

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Incubator Q&A Splitting a deck of cards into 2 piles

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...

posted 5mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Incubator Q&A Maximizing the common value of both sides of an equation

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...

posted 6mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Meta Home Improvement + Arts & Crafts -> some sort of "makers" community?

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 ...

posted 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Meta Is economics on topic for everyday science?

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...

posted 3y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Descriptions Everyday Science

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...

posted 3y ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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