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Saturday, October 21, 2023

Lockscreen: A Beach for KenKen

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:21 pm

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Meeting Cute: KenKen Meets BarbieBarbie (continued)

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:03 pm

See also the previous post.

Friday, January 1, 2021

Mission Possible: KenKen Meets BarbieBarbie

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:13 pm

Wikipedia on the late Hugh Hefner

“Through his father’s line, Hefner was a descendant of
Plymouth governor William Bradford.  He described
his family as ‘conservative, Midwestern, [and] Methodist’.
His mother had wanted him to become a missionary.”

A quote from Story Space

“Your mission, should you choose to accept it . . . .” —

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Annie_Fanny .

Hefner’s parents might prefer the region of Story Space
proper to Dreamboat  Annie.

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Hexagram 52: Ken

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:32 am

Today's description of Dartmouth College as a "gin-soaked gutter"
by Margaret Soltan (i.e., University Diaries) suggests a review:

Monday, November 14, 2022

Primitive Design Theory

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:25 pm

The previous post discussed
the phrase "plot structure."

A different approach —

Textbook art from 1974 —

See as well a more interesting book I enjoyed reading in 1974.

See also "KenKen" and today's previous post.

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

“Man’s Search for Meaning” — and Woman’s

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:00 pm

Related material — See KenKen in this journal.

As for BarbieBarbie . . .

Saturday, November 27, 2021

“Are you going to Barcelona?” — Sondheim, “Company”*

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:52 pm

* In honor of Sondheim, recent posts are now
  tagged with a phrase from a different show — 
  Send in the Clowns.

  Speaking of which . . .

Sunday, January 17, 2021

Looking for a Point of View*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:44 am

Related post from New Year’s Day —
Mission Possible: KenKen Meets BarbieBarbie.”

* See “Lars and the Code Girl.”

Monday, January 4, 2021

The Purloined Joke

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:53 am

See also the phrase “Beautiful Mathematics” in this  journal.

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Space Force

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:08 pm

New Yorker  video  today, at 14:00-14:25 —

“What’s good about KenKen, and Sudoku, and crosswords,
all of those puzzles like that, is that they have grids to be filled in,
empty squares. I think there is something about human nature
that we want to fill up spaces. And if you’re a puzzle person,
or almost anybody, and you see an empty grid, you want to
put something in those spaces. It gives a feeling of satisfaction
that you don’t get often in life and that really feels good.”

— Will Shortz, New York Times  puzzle editor

“I can’t get no… satisfaction….” — The Rolling Stones

The New Yorker  recently restarted the Weiner story,
which includes —

“… the fall of 2017, when he began a twenty-one-month
prison sentence for sexting with a minor.”

“You want to put something in those spaces.”

— Will Shortz, New York Times  puzzle editor

Yes, you do.

Weiner is now with a Brooklyn countertops company called IceStone.

The Whiteboard Jungle

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:45 pm

Detail:

A story in numbers:

15:15.

  It is what it is.

See also the phrase “Beautiful Mathematics” in this  journal.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

High School Squares*

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:20 am

The following is from the weblog of a high school mathematics teacher—

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110121-LatinSquares4x4.jpg

This is related to the structure of the figure on the cover of the 1976 monograph Diamond Theory

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110122-DiamondTheoryCover.jpg

Each small square pattern on the cover is a Latin square,
with elements that are geometric figures rather than letters or numerals.
All order-four Latin squares are represented.

For a deeper look at the structure of such squares, let the high-school
chart above be labeled with the letters A through X, and apply the
four-color decomposition theorem.  The result is 24 structural diagrams—

    Click to enlarge

IMAGE- The Order-4 (4x4) Latin Squares

Some of the squares are structurally congruent under the group of 8 symmetries of the square.

This can be seen in the following regrouping—

   Click to enlarge

IMAGE- The Order-4 (4x4) Latin Squares, with Congruent Squares Adjacent

      (Image corrected on Jan. 25, 2011– "seven" replaced "eight.")

* Retitled "The Order-4 (i.e., 4×4) Latin Squares" in the copy at finitegeometry.org/sc.

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