Burning Thoughts
A equation relating Halley’s Comet, the 17-year cicadas, and the calendar year is a Diophantine equation, an equation which only permits integer solutions. In this case, whole numbers of years, reappearances, and variables.
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Although climate change is a topic people disagree about, it's a good idea to have…
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I wasn't satisfied with my earlier analysis of the relationship between
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It always bugged me that the orbits of the planets about the sun were elliptical,…
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