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Dear Dirichlet, Issue 19
Game shows, flight and social media bots are among the problems solved in this issue's Dear Dirichlet agony aunt column
The big argument: What’s the best way to end a proof?
QED or $\square$?
How many quadratics factorise?
Write down a quadratic. What is the probability that it factorises? Paging Prof. Dirichet...
The croissant equation
Each time you eat a croissant you might be biting more than 500 layers of dough!