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  • 120 = Dealing Probability and Healing Gullibility
    2025/10/27
    🃏 What are the odds of actually winning Morgan’s very specific, very fun card game?🤯 Are people more gullible now? And what are the best ways to persuade someone they are wrong?👻 And, appropriate to the season, there will be some Any Other BoooooooooooooosnessIf you have some ingenious suggestions of what Matt can do in lunar gravity, head to www.aproblemsquared.com and submit your idea as a ‘Solution’Head to our socials to see Matt’s graph plot and stats on the odds of winning the card game, as well as Bec’s beautifully laid out existence proof of the 52 Card Game!Some further reading on The Gullibility Problem:Why are people so gullible? https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20160323-why-are-people-so-incredibly-gullibleResearch paper on political extremism: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797612464058Nobel Disease: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nobel_diseaseAnd some tetrahedron-shaped packaging - or TetraPaks, if you will:TetraPak: https://www.tetrapak.com/solutions/packaging/packages SunnyBoys: https://australianfoodtimeline.com.au/2016-goodbye-sunnyboy/ See Matt on tour! http://standupmaths.com/shows And if you want to see Matt in London on Monday 1st December, tickets are here: https://lwtheatres.co.uk/whats-on/matt-parker/Or if you want to see Bec in Brighton on Monday 1st December, tickets are here: https://www.komedia.co.uk/shows/john-luke-roberts-geoffrey-chaucers-mediaeval-christmas-festivitye/Here’s how to get involved with Matt’s Moon Pi Kickstarter:https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/standupmaths And here’s how to volunteer for Calculate Pi By Hand with Matt: https://forms.gle/w44THpNJ3jWUPqHy6If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post! If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps. Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.
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  • 117 = Visualising Hacks and Unusual Icy Snacks
    2025/09/01

    👁️ How do you remember things if you can’t visualisethem in your mind’s eye?

    🍭 What’s the best shape for a freeze pop?

    🪣 And there’s some Any Other Beachness

    Head to our socials to see freeze pop pics, Matt(not that one)’s tooth and the AOB gifts!

    Here’s a link to the University of Exeter’s The Eye’s Mind project: https://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/eyesmind/

    And here’s a selection of freeze pops and anti-prisms…

    https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/del-monte-quality-pineapple-freeze-pop-8-x-62ml

    https://www.vimto.co.uk/vimto-range/product/vimto-pyramids/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_antiprism

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disphenoid

    See Matt on tour! http://standupmaths.com/shows/

    Here’s how to get involved with Matt’s Moon Pi Kickstarter:

    https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/standupmaths

    And here’s how to volunteer for Calculate Pi By Hand with Matt: https://forms.gle/w44THpNJ3jWUPqHy6

    If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!


    If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps.

    Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.


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  • 115 = Jolly Good Euphemising and Hollywood Sign Sizing
    2025/08/04

    🍆 What’s the “female equivalent” of phallic?

    What’s the font size of the Hollywood sign?

    🦈 And we’re always open for AOBusiness


    Thanks to our excellent experts appearing in voicenote form - Dr Ben Whittle, Chella Quint OBE, and Linus Boman.


    Daan’s paper in the American Journal of Archaeology which cites this very podcast: doi.org/10.1086/735650


    The world’s largest enlarged letter: https://www.pleasedonotbend.co.uk/categories/world-record


    If you’re heading to the Edinburgh Fringe, you can get tickets to see Bec here: https://tickets.gildedballoon.co.uk/event/14:5884/

    And you can get tickets see to Matt here: https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/getting-triggy-it-matt-parker-does-maths


    Here’s how to get involved with Matt’s Moon Pi Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/standupmaths

    And here’s how to volunteer for Calculate Pi By Hand with Matt: https://forms.gle/w44THpNJ3jWUPqHy6


    If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!


    If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps.


    Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky,Twitter,Instagram, and on Discord.

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