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A braggart, a rogue, a villain that fights by the book of arithmetic!

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I hadn't realised 41 was so good, but the list up to 10 000 only has one number greater than it that even reaches 10 consecutive primes. I wonder if it can be beaten?
A quadratic function that generates primes. Will it keep generating primes forever? When will it stop? I explored prime-generating functions and ended up finding a sequence that wasn't in the OEIS - it is now! aperiodical.com/2024/05/prim...
Prime-generating functionsaperiodical.com A few weeks ago I heard someone casually refer to ‘that formula of Euler’s that generates primes’. I hadn’t heard of this, but it turns out that in 1772 Euler produced this formula: \[ …
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A quadratic function that generates primes. Will it keep generating primes forever? When will it stop? I explored prime-generating functions and ended up finding a sequence that wasn't in the OEIS - it is now! aperiodical.com/2024/05/prim...
Prime-generating functionsaperiodical.com A few weeks ago I heard someone casually refer to ‘that formula of Euler’s that generates primes’. I hadn’t heard of this, but it turns out that in 1772 Euler produced this formula: \[ …
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calc teachers hate this one weird trick
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Some Menu Math ala @natbanting.bsky.social. I'm still tinkering with it, and je vais faire un essai poor traduire à français, but feel free to use and/or share feedback!
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Start of Term CPD hit a real low point today. '95% of jobs your pupils will do don't exist yet.' 'Goldfish have a 6 second memory.' 'Maslow's hierarchy of needs.' Those 'facts' were all thoroughly debunked by the time I was training, over a decade ago. Very, very disappointing.
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New! Eight years after I last blogged about A level resources, here's an update! www.resourceaholic.com/2023/12/a-le...
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