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The Mathematical Gazette Jul 2001

Volume 85 Number 503

Editor Steve Abbott


Contents


Editorial
 
193

Articles
   
Fractal tilings derived from complex bases Sara Hagey and Judith Palagallo 194
How to buy a winning ticket on the National Lottery J. Brinkman, D. E. Hodgkinson and J. F. Humphreys 202
The curious rectangles of Rollett and Rees P. N. Ruane 208
A proof of Lester's Theorem Ron Shail 226
Tumugu Sakuma's problem Fuzuko Suzuki 233
Critical sets in latin squares: an intriguing problem A. Donald Keedwell 239
S-P numbers in bases other than 10 Ezra Bussmann 245
The high jump ? the neglected straddle style Maurice N. Brearley and Neville J. de Mestre 249

Matters for Debate
   
Logic, language and life Bill Brakes 255

Notes 85.23 to 85.48
   
A Fibonacci query Robert J. Clarke 267
Numbers and their Digits ? III S. Parameswaran 268
Square-triangular numbers revisited Peter A. Braza and Jingcheng Tong 270
Another method for Pythagorean triples Hassan A. Shah Ali 273
An alternative characterisation of all primitive Pythagorean triples Douglas W. Mitchell 273
More properties of Pythagorean triples Alfred and Dominic Vella 275
Cutting your fax bill S. Simons 278
The four number game and Pascal's triangle Jun Ji and Charles Kicey 280
On the order of a finite field Neville Robbins 285
Another proof of the arithmetic-geometric mean inequality J. Rooin 285
A geometrical representation of the classical means of two quantities I. Grattan-Guinness 286
A maximum without calculus Desmond MacHale 288
Tangents revisited Mike Cooper 288
On identities following from trigonometric formulae of multiple angles Grzegorz Rzadkowski 289
A trigonometric identity that G. S. Carr missed and a trigonometrical proof of a theorem of Bang Mowaffaq Hajja 293
A curious identity S. Simons 296
A modification of the 'nesting' algorithm S. Simons 298
Even more series for pi J. A. Scott 299
Sharper bounds for the factorial of n Phillip Edwards and Munir Mahmood 301
On the Hermite-Hadamard inequality Constantin P. Niculescu 304
The return of Secret Santa A. V. Boyd and J. N. Ridley 307
Circle theorems and a property of the (2,3,4) triangle Tony Barnard and John Silvester 312
Comment on Note 83.51 A. Robert Pargeter 316
Note 83.51 revisited Cyril F. Parry 316
A Euclidean proof of Aubel's theorem Michael Fox 318
More on times of flight Michael A. B.Deakin and G. J. Troup 321

Correspondence
 
325

Notices
  329

Problem Corner

G. T. Q. Hoare

330

Students Problems

Tim Cross

336

Reviews
 
339

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