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What is the shortest universal poem for a given length of rhyming pattern?

Clare (like gare) is a Chalkdust editor. In her spare time, she’s an assistant professor at Durham University. She likes Skittles, probability, and making the magazine look more like Cosmo.

Poly-π
Clem Padin calculates π, but not as we know it
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Chalkdust dissertation prize
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The big argument: What’s the best way to end a proof?
QED or $\square$?
An odd card trick
Michael Wendl dissects some variants of the magic separation, a self-working card trick.
The digital sum of the products of twin primes is 8?
What connects the products of twin primes with something you learnt in primary school and the number 8?