http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2011/12/hf-true-love/ The Math Factor Podcast Site Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:52:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.25 http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2011/12/hf-true-love/comment-page-1/#comment-928 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:48:55 +0000 http://mathfactor.uark.edu/?p=1362#comment-928 Long-time listeners to The Math Factor will be happy will be happy to hear that 1,4,10,20,35… is listed in Neil Sloane’s Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (oies.org) as sequence A000292.  These numbers, of course, progressively give the total number of gifts one is stuck with on each successive day of Christmas.  The OIES call them the tetrahedral numbers, which appear in numerous serious mathematical contexts, though one alert UK user did point out that the sequence has the Christmas spirit.

]]> http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2011/12/hf-true-love/comment-page-1/#comment-924 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:00:11 +0000 http://mathfactor.uark.edu/?p=1362#comment-924 O(n^2)

]]> http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2011/12/hf-true-love/comment-page-1/#comment-923 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:41:18 +0000 http://mathfactor.uark.edu/?p=1362#comment-923 Ok, Ok, I know the First Day of Christmas hasn’t come yet. I’m just anticipating getting a partridge in a pear tree.

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