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#32 - Quiz Shows, Queues and Quavers

The boys return to think about the structure of a quiz show round, they learn how to queue effectively and they investigate the best tunings for guitars. Odds and Evenin

#31 - Cards, Competitions and Celebrations (w/ Matthew Scroggs)

The boys are in the same room, and they have a guest! They talk about an awful tennis tournament mixup, a teeny tiny card game and the primest day of the year. Odds and

#30 - Delta-Y, Diversity and Dynamics

The boys sit down with an infinite box of resistors, worry just how diverse their business is and think through the peculiar physics of balloons. Odds and Evenings Twit

Mini Episode: Bidding Game

Here's something a little different. Over at Aperiodical they are running the Big Internet Math Off 2019, where 16 mathematicians present pitches to compete in a tourname

#29 - Pyramids, Pitches and Pumps

The boys are back for season two! They try ramping Pascal's Triangle up a couple of dimensions, consider the physics of how we control volume and attempt to help out some

#28 - Rugby, Rolling and Robots

The boys help organise a rugby training scheme, set robots upon an infinite hotel and discover some lovely patterns in the probability of Snakes and Ladders. Odds and Ev

#27 - Strangers, Scaling and Scores

The boys partake unto an unwavering curiousity as to who is friends with whom. Infinite-dimensional animals are discussed, and they ponder the potentially undue rewards o

#26 - Geometry, Goblins and Getting to Pubs

The boys find themselves on the wrong side of the mathematical orthodoxy, rejecting the concepts of distance and angles, before immediately forgetting about that and usin

#25 - Codes, Coins and Criss-Crosses

Here's a copy of the puzzle that Alaric wrote for the conference: Chyptic Chossword The boys play games, join a secret circle and put up the Christmas lights :) Odds an

#24 - Shamir's, Sums and Seatings

The boys celebrate a year of the podcast, try to get a hold on some of the weirder polygonal numbers and debrief after big maths jam. Odds and Evenings Twitter - https

#23 - Ants, Arcs and Awkward Patterns

The boys get to the bottom of a neat pattern that suddenly breaks, contort their limbs into strange shapes in the name of Plato and attempt a very satisfying problem invo

#22 - Pandemics, Padovan’s and Pumpkins

The boys get as spooky as they can with cellular automata, have a maths conversation about maths conversations and can't get past the fact that Brunnian and Borromean sou

#21 - Torque, Truth and Time Signatures

The boys settle a dicussion about a bike that Alaric has been aching to talk about for a fortnight, Alex finally brings up music and then they both dive down the Gödel ra

#20 - Tangles, Twists and Trots

The boys design algorithms to generate puzzles on graphs, spiral out into some polar coordinate calculus and gallop their way through some juggling notation. Odds and Ev

#19 - Probability, Pubs and Power

The boys delve into some stats and game theory problems, ending with a classic from Conway. Odds and Evenings Twitter - https://twitter.com/OddsAndEvenings Website - h

#18 - Pads, Plato and Pirates

The boys move seemlessly between high philosophy and pirate jokes in this eclectic episode. Odds and Evenings Twitter - https://twitter.com/OddsAndEvenings Website - h

#17 - Caps, Cracks and Kaprekar's Constants

The boys try their hands at problems provided by the listeners in today's special episode. Odds and Evenings Twitter - https://twitter.com/OddsAndEvenings Website - ht

#16 - Algorithms, Adding and Adders

The boys both have problems which involve complicating the process of adding. Also snakes. Odds and Evenings Twitter - https://twitter.com/OddsAndEvenings Website - ht

#15 - Sofas, Secrets and Sizzling String

The boys both choose to take a medley of problems on the same theme, then solve a puzzle ridiculously quickly. Odds and Evenings Twitter - https://twitter.com/OddsAndEv

#14 - Guesses, Geometry and Grover's Algorithm

The boys go on serious diversions. Alex fails to use a computer properly. Odds and Evenings Twitter - https://twitter.com/OddsAndEvenings Website - http://www.oddsande