More from Chalkdust
The hidden harmonies of Hamming distance
Chris Boucher explores the secrets and symmetries behind a measure of the distance between binary strings
Prize crossnumber, Issue 07
Win £100 of Maths Gear goodies by solving our famously fiendish crossnumber
Domino tiling & domineering
John Dore and Chris Woodcock join the dots
Is it possible to reach absolute zero?
After 100 years, a key postulate of the third law of thermodynamics has been proven. We meet Lluis Masanes, one of the researchers responsible.
Page 3 model
How to model bread making!
You can count on Dirichlet
Counting the divisors of an integer turns out to be a rather hard problem