Wrong, but Useful: Episode 80/80

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In this, the final episode of WBU, @reflectivemaths and I discuss:

• @samuel_hansen’s antiracism post((get well soon, Samuel)). Dave and I both assert that Black Lives Matter and acknowledge that we have a significant amount of work to do to create a just society.
• In a whiplash-inducing change of tone, tooth fairy maths
• Multiplayer Nim (‘unlucky 10’)
• The Million Game from @drewfoster
• Dave seems to have a thing about noughts and crosses
• The Mathoff is over: thanks, everyone!
• Now, more than ever, would a decent text book be the answer?
• The chaos game in a hexagon
• Social distancing in 3D
• Via @christianp: Simon Plouffe has found a sequence of 565 primes in ‘geometric progression’ (meaning they’re the closest integers to the first 565 terms of a geometric sequence)
• Some quotes from past blog posts:
  • Dave insults mechanics, then gets stroppy about Colin insulting stats
  • In this month’s podcast, @reflectivemaths and I discuss: Colin’s book being available to buy
  • Colin gloats about Spoof My Proof and Dave chews on sour grapes
  • Colin has laser eye surgery and doesn’t care about Dave’s health… … but does care about 20481
• A final puzzle: It usually takes me eighty minutes to run my Sunday running route, but if I wear my running hat, it takes one hour and twenty minutes. Why?

Thank you for listening loyally, especially to those who’ve co-hosted and interacted with us. It’s been an entertaining journey.

Right. How do we get into pretending this didn’t happen?