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

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Chalkdust dissertation prize 2025
Calling all final-year students! This is your opportunity to get your work published as a Chalkdust article.
Chalkdust dissertation prize
Calling all final-year students!
The big argument: What’s the best way to end a proof?
QED or $\square$?
Review: Power in numbers — the rebel women of mathematics
Celebrate International Women's day by reading about rebel women in mathematics!
Analogue computing: fun with differential equations
Solving differential equations instantaneously, using some electrical components and an oscilloscope
The Symposium of the Muses
The resultant art is the outcome and purpose that elevates and distinguishes the science.