Measure Theory Interblog

The 6, 7, 8 phenomenon. I thought I was the only one who experienced this!

(Not to be confused with the 7, 8, 9 phenomenon)

It’s more physics-related than math-related, but I found it funny

A different kind of captcha:

(from Reddit)

I do online tutoring. This was one of the questions that someone sent me:

1) Solve this equation:   -10x-6+4x=-4x+8

2) x + 7x = 8x

Number 1 seems ok. Number 2 perplexes me.

I just stumbled onto a math community on Live Journal. Considering the frequency that I Google “math AND sex”, it’s amazing that I didn’t turn this up before now.

Mathsex Community

(There appears not to be as much sex as there is math. Some kind of false advertising or something)