A Problem Squared

Matt Parker, Bec Hill
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Matt Parker and Bec Hill present: A Problem Squared. A podcast dedicated to solving problems of all kinds, such as, "What should I listen to right now?". A Podcast Squared. First one's free. You're welcome. Episodes released twokly on Mondays.

  1. 2 DAYS AGO

    121 = Bi-annuals and Diagonals

    🗓️ Does bi-weekly mean every two weeks or twice a week? 🧊 What is the name of the line between two opposing corners of a cube? 🕑 And daylight will be saved with some Any Other Brightness. For more on Rupert and Nopert Shapes: Euler Brick: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/EulerBrick.html Tom7 - Rupert's Snub Cube and other Math Holes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH4MviUE0_s Tom7’s Print files for Platonic, Archimedean and Catalan Solids: https://makerworld.com/en/models/1617011-platonic-archimedean-and-catalan-solids#profileId-1706419 Follow Dr Ben Whittle, The Excellent Etymologist, on Instagram! @schnebwhittle Joey Parrish and his Sega Slides https://github.com/joeyparrish/sega-slides See Matt on tour! http://standupmaths.com/shows  Specifically, see Matt in London on Monday 1st December! https://lwtheatres.co.uk/whats-on/matt-parker/  Or if you would like to see Bec in Brighton on Monday 1st December, tickets are here: https://www.komedia.co.uk/shows/john-luke-roberts-geoffrey-chaucers-mediaeval-christmas-festivitye/ Here’s how to get involved with Matt’s Moon Pi Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/standupmaths  And here’s how to volunteer for Calculate Pi By Hand with Matt: https://forms.gle/w44THpNJ3jWUPqHy6 Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard. If you’re already on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!  If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps.  Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.

    52 min

  2. 27 OCT

    120 = Dealing Probability and Healing Gullibility

    🃏 What are the odds of actually winning Morgan’s very specific, very fun card game? 🤯 Are people more gullible now? And what are the best ways to persuade someone they are wrong? 👻 And, appropriate to the season, there will be some Any Other Boooooooooooooosness If you have some ingenious suggestions of what Matt can do in lunar gravity, head to www.aproblemsquared.com and submit your idea as a ‘Solution’ Head to our socials to see Matt’s graph plot and stats on the odds of winning the card game, as well as Bec’s beautifully laid out existence proof of the 52 Card Game! Some further reading on The Gullibility Problem: Why are people so gullible? https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20160323-why-are-people-so-incredibly-gullible Research paper on political extremism: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797612464058 Nobel Disease: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nobel_disease And some tetrahedron-shaped packaging - or TetraPaks, if you will: TetraPak: https://www.tetrapak.com/solutions/packaging/packages  SunnyBoys: https://australianfoodtimeline.com.au/2016-goodbye-sunnyboy/  See Matt on tour! http://standupmaths.com/shows  And if you want to see Matt in London on Monday 1st December, tickets are here: https://lwtheatres.co.uk/whats-on/matt-parker/ Or if you want to see Bec in Brighton on Monday 1st December, tickets are here: https://www.komedia.co.uk/shows/john-luke-roberts-geoffrey-chaucers-mediaeval-christmas-festivitye/ Here’s how to get involved with Matt’s Moon Pi Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/standupmaths  And here’s how to volunteer for Calculate Pi By Hand with Matt: https://forms.gle/w44THpNJ3jWUPqHy6 If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!   If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps.  Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.

    1h 8m

  3. 13 OCT

    119 = Proportions by Bananas and Polygons from Lava

    🍌 Is there a more consistent system of measuring things (and is it ‘Banana For Scale’)? 🌋 Why and how do hexagons occur in nature? 🔔 And there will be a whole Bec of Any Other Becness Head to our socials to see Matt and Bec playing The Metre Game, lots of bananas for scale, and Matt sporting some very fetching headwear. Some further reading on the origins of ‘Banana For Scale’: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/banana-for-scale  Some further reading on hexagons in basalt: European Geoscience Union article: https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ts/2023/05/26/features-from-the-field-columnar-basalts-and-why-hexagons-are-natures-favourite-shape/ Physical Review Letters:  https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.154301 See Matt on tour! http://standupmaths.com/shows  Here’s how to get involved with Matt’s Moon Pi Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/standupmaths  And here’s how to volunteer for Calculate Pi By Hand with Matt: https://forms.gle/w44THpNJ3jWUPqHy6 If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!   If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps.  Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.

    54 min

  4. 29 SEPT

    118 = Rolling Eyes and Juggling Highs

    🎲 What are the odds of rolling snake eyes? (And does it make for good TV?) 🤹How long does it take to learn to juggle with seven balls? 🛌 And there’s some Any Other Bed’n’Boardness Head to our socials to see Matt and Bec in action, rolling dice and juggling balls! To find out more about our juggling expert Darryl J Carrington, head to his insta:https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17849564354111457/?hl=en And here’s Colin Wright’s video about Sideswap: “Juggling by Numbers - Numberphile” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dwgusHjA0Y   Here are Jasper’s links (in Dutch and in English) about the Belgian family and their children’s themed names https://vrtnws.be/p.NvjDVZw5w  (Dutch)   https://www.reddit.com/r/tragedeigh/comments/17h7ka6/gwenny_32_is_pregnant_of_a_twelfth_child_a/ (English)    And here are the visualised shuffles of the card question in Episode 113 Tom - https://tehtommeh.github.io/riffle-me-this/ Bernhard - https://www.bernhard-werner.de/assets/cindy/applets/card_weave.html Shaun - https://svermaak.github.io/VisualiseCardShuffle/   If you’re in the market for a phenomenal dwarf hamster set up, here’s Bec’s ebay link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/127379362494   See Matt on tour! http://standupmaths.com/shows    Here’s how to get involved with Matt’s Moon Pi Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/standupmaths    And here’s how to volunteer for Calculate Pi By Hand with Matt: https://forms.gle/w44THpNJ3jWUPqHy6   If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!   If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps.    Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.

    57 min

  5. 15 SEPT

    A Problem Squared - Emergency Episode!

    Unfortunately, Matt has been ill and lost his voice so we were unable to record the episode that should be coming out this week. To make up for it, we are releasing an episode of the usually-Patreon-only I Am A Wizard for you to listen to. It's the one from April this year and features a magical offer from our listener who is, apparently, a wizard - USBinPRL. But we begin with a message from Bec, who can still speak. If you want more wizarding silliness then join our Patreon at patreon.com/aproblemsquared - you'll get access to all the past episodes of I Am A Wizard, a new wizard episode every month, and early access to all episodes of A Problem Squared! Normal Service will be resumed in Two Weeks!

    20 min

  6. 1 SEPT

    117 = Visualising Hacks and Unusual Icy Snacks

    👁️ How do you remember things if you can’t visualisethem in your mind’s eye? 🍭 What’s the best shape for a freeze pop? 🪣 And there’s some Any Other Beachness    Head to our socials to see freeze pop pics, Matt(not that one)’s tooth and the AOB gifts!    Here’s a link to the University of Exeter’s The Eye’s Mind project: https://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/eyesmind/     And here’s a selection of freeze pops and anti-prisms… https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/del-monte-quality-pineapple-freeze-pop-8-x-62ml https://www.vimto.co.uk/vimto-range/product/vimto-pyramids/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_antiprism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disphenoid    See Matt on tour! http://standupmaths.com/shows/    Here’s how to get involved with Matt’s Moon Pi Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/standupmaths   And here’s how to volunteer for Calculate Pi By Hand with Matt: https://forms.gle/w44THpNJ3jWUPqHy6   If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!   If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps.    Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.

    54 min

  7. 18 AUG

    116 = Guess The Right Price and Why Teeth Might Splice

    ￡ What’s the optimum strategy to win The Price Is Right? 🦷 Why have Tim’s baby teeth fallen apart? 🛠️ And there’s some Any Other Billy Bookcase Business Head to our socials to play along with The Price Is Right and to see a video of Ikea Wars! Here are the GIANT LETTERS sent in by Phillip: https://maps.app.goo.gl/yZaofcfNPaF5HyX17 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillside_letters If you’re in Edinburgh for the Fringe, get tickets to see Bec here: https://tickets.gildedballoon.co.uk/event/14:5884/ And get tickets see to Matt here: https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/getting-triggy-it-matt-parker-does-maths Here’s how to get involved with Matt’s Moon Pi Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/standupmaths  And here’s how to volunteer for Calculate Pi By Hand with Matt: https://forms.gle/w44THpNJ3jWUPqHy6 If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!   If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps.  Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.

    51 min

  8. 4 AUG

    115 = Jolly Good Euphemising and Hollywood Sign Sizing

    🍆 What’s the “female equivalent” of phallic? What’s the font size of the Hollywood sign? 🦈 And we’re always open for AOBusiness Thanks to our excellent experts appearing in voicenote form - Dr Ben Whittle, Chella Quint OBE, and Linus Boman. Daan’s paper in the American Journal of Archaeology which cites this very podcast: doi.org/10.1086/735650  The world’s largest enlarged letter: https://www.pleasedonotbend.co.uk/categories/world-record If you’re heading to the Edinburgh Fringe, you can get tickets to see Bec here: https://tickets.gildedballoon.co.uk/event/14:5884/ And you can get tickets see to Matt here: https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/getting-triggy-it-matt-parker-does-maths Here’s how to get involved with Matt’s Moon Pi Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/standupmaths  And here’s how to volunteer for Calculate Pi By Hand with Matt: https://forms.gle/w44THpNJ3jWUPqHy6 If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!   If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps.  Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky,Twitter,Instagram, and on Discord.

    55 min
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Matt Parker and Bec Hill present: A Problem Squared. A podcast dedicated to solving problems of all kinds, such as, "What should I listen to right now?". A Podcast Squared. First one's free. You're welcome. Episodes released twokly on Mondays.

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  • Creator
    Matt Parker, Bec Hill
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2025
  • Episodes
    124
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Matt Parker, Bec Hill
  • Show Website
    A Problem Squared

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