A Problem Squared Podcast

🎲What’s the best design for non-traditional dice?

📄 What should you call paperwork that doesn’t involve paper?

🙋And it’s more a comment than a question in AOB

Head to our socials to see Matt’s excellent Angry Man In Local Newspaper photos.

If you’d like to peruse and purchase more dice variations, head here:

https://mathsgear.co.uk/collections/dice 

If you have any paperlesspaperwork suggestions, join in here!

https://www.reddit.com/r/AProblemSquared/

If you’re heading to the Edinburgh Fringe, you can get tickets to see Matt here:

https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/getting-triggy-it-matt-parker-does-maths

And you can get tickets see Bec here:

https://tickets.gildedballoon.co.uk/event/14:5884/

If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!  

If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps. 

Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.

4️⃣ What would it look like to be trapped in a 4D world?

🥰 What is the meaning of marriage?

✨Izzy Wizzy Let’s Get AOBusy

Head to our socials to see some fantastic representations of 2D meets 3D meets 4D in fiction, some magical magic, and an alphabetically perfect travel route (for 40 days in 1990).

If you’re heading to the Edinburgh Fringe, you can get tickets to see Matt here:

https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/getting-triggy-it-matt-parker-does-maths

And you can get tickets see Bec here:

https://tickets.gildedballoon.co.uk/event/14:5884/

If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!  

If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps. 

Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.

🍻What’s the best way to politely tell a friend that they’ve had too much to drink?

🗞️ Is there a way to prove that something existed before a certain date?

❌And AOB brings us some friendly corrections…

A useful menu of alcoholic choices…

https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/ 

A hash of a DING!

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If you’re heading to the Edinburgh Fringe, you can see Matt here:

https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/getting-triggy-it-matt-parker-does-maths

And Bec’s show will be onsale soon!

If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!  

If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps. 

Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared - including the pictures mentioned herein! - you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.

🧱How many megabytes are actually in a gigabyte?

🌕There have been some Moon Developments…

😎And AOB will bring a little sunshine into your life

Here is NASA’s Press Release about navigation on the moon:

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/space-communications-navigation-program/nasa-successfully-acquires-gps-signals-on-moon/

And some further reading from Matt: 

https://www.gpsworld.com/lugre-receiver-captures-gnss-signals-in-lunar-orbit/

https://www.unoosa.org/documents/pdf/icg/2024/WG-B_Lunar_PNT_Jun24/LunarPNT_Jun24_01_03.pdf

The Biggest Bike!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DG4Gbrys3NL/?igsh=dTBqeG0wZGVpcXhs

Prawn News!

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/cyclone-alfred-live-updates-brisbane-south-east-queensland-braces-for-first-direct-impact-from-storm-in-50-years-northern-nsw-prepares-for-flooding-20250305-p5lh6c.html?post=p58aa2

If you’re heading to the Edinburgh Fringe, you can see Matt here:

https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/getting-triggy-it-matt-parker-does-maths

And Bec’s show will be onsale soon!

Make sure you look after your teeth, kids...

If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!  

If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, show the podcast to a friend or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps. 

Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.

🗺️ Is there an alphabetically perfect travel route?

🪵 What can be done with karate chopped wood?

🤙 And we ride the crest of the Any Other Business wave

You can find the data-basis for the alphabetically perfect travel route here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_by_number_of_land_borders

Here are some of Bec’s aesthetically pleasing solutions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=JubeLHRYl80

https://www.myveryeducatedmother.com/2015/12/turn-broken-karate-boards-into-coat-rack.html

https://www.ellemariehome.com/upcycle-karate-break-boards-into-wood-signs/#google_vignette

And you can find Brendan’s magical web app here:

https://bren.app/podcasteveryday/

If you’re heading to the Edinburgh Fringe, you can see Matt here:

https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/getting-triggy-it-matt-parker-does-maths

And Bec’s show will be onsale soon!

If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!  

If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, show the podcast to a friend or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps. 

Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.