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Adele’s ‘30’: A mathematician explores number patterns in album titles The Conversation, December 1, 2021 Pop superstar Adele has a habit of titling her albums in a peculiar way. Each album title is an integer that represents how old the singer was when she began writing the songs. David Patrick of the Art of Problem…
What Hot Dogs Can Teach Us About Number Theory Quanta Magazine, November 18, 2021 No hot dog is complete without a bun. So it’s maddening that you typically have to buy eight buns at a time, but you can’t buy exactly eight hot dogs. Getting one package of each will leave you with two extra…