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The Mathematical Gazette Nov 2003

Volume 87 Number 510

Editor Gerry Leversha


Contents


Editorial

417

Articles
   
Taking perspective Barry Lewis 418
Fibonacci in Hogwarts? Tomislav Do'liÆ 432
Some properties of repetends N. J. Armstrong 437
A simple proof of Lester's theorem John Rigby 444
Morley's diagram generalised M. D. Fox 453
Balls, boxes and solitary waves Paul R. Turner 468
Using spreadsheets to divide algebraic expressions Tony Collyer and Alex Pathan 477

Notes 87.51 to 87.83

   
A generalisation of Pascal's and Fibonacci's triangle Zohreh Shishebor 485
On a generalised divisibility property of primes and the Fibonacci numbers John H. Jaroma 486
But which one is it? Martin Griffiths 491
Tests for divisibility R. A. Watson 493
An elementary approach to finding all square-triangular numbers   Jingcheng Tong and Peter A. Braza 494
Conjugates of Pythagorean triples Jingcheng Tong 496
Using Pythagorean triples to generate square roots of  Douglas W. Mitchell 499
Proof of the theorems of Fermat and Wilson and related results   A. D. Woodall 500
The digital representation ring Ronald Skurnick 505
On the matrix representation of continued fractions J. A. Scott 510
Loops of regular -gons K. Robin McLean and John R. Silvester 512
A pair of floor and ceiling formulas Thomas Koshy 514
Wrong method but right answer Anand Kumar 516
Go to work on an egg G. Corris 516
Can growth be faster than exponential, and just how slow is the logarithm? John Tolle 522
An equality for certain exponential sums H. Azad and A. Laradji 525
Sums involving square-free integers Michael D. Hirschhorn 527
Comment on 85.38 A curious identity Michael D. Hirschhorn 528
On a precursor to Stirling's formula Peter R. Mercer 530
A double integral, a rectangular hyperbola and the harmonic mean J. A. Scott 532
Evaluation of a class of improper integrals of the first kind Bai-ni Guo and Feng Qi 534
A systematisation of some trigonometric identities J. K. R. Barnett 539
The number of odd multinomial coefficients Patrick Quill 545
The new neighbours problem: an algorithmic solution Michael Robins 546
Some properties of a triangle and a point Fukuzo Suzuki 548
Two more proofs of Lester's theorem J. A. Scott 553
A geometrical iteration S. Simons 557
Steiner-Lehmus revisited J. A. Scott 561
An inscriptable quadrilateral Adam Brown 563
On a metric-related function for the triangle J. A. Scott 565
A connection between Brianchon's theorem and the seven circles theorem Adam Brown 569
A strange property of floating bodies Kenzi Odani and
Tomoko Murakami
572
The generalised consecutive lottery number problem Christopher M. Rump 577

Feedback
582

Correspondence
 
584

Problem Corner

Nick Lord

587

Student Problems

Tim Cross

594

Reviews

597

Acknowledgements

607

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