ρɤιταɱ ʂαɧα on Stage

Yup, that’s right. I’m performing live on stage on “Robi Pronam”. It’s on Oct 31, Monday near about 7pm at Brotidol. It’s my come back performance & hope we’ll have a great time. Please join us.

The Festive of Light

Wishing all of you a very very Happy & Safe Diwali. May the Crackers stay in your lives forever.

The Answer is 22

Select any 3-digit number with all digits different from one another. Write all possible 2-digit numbers that can be formed from the 3-digits selected earlier. Then divide their sum by the sum of the digits in the original 3-digit number.

e.g.    Consider a 3-digit number 365.

         All possible 2-digit numbers are 36, 35, 63, 65, 53, 56.

         Their sum is 36+35+63+65+53+56=308

         Sum of the digits of original number is 3+6+5=14

         Then 308/14=22

Divided Difference

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Written in History. Set in Gold.

Global Warming

Eating less meat can reduce the amount of Methane that is sent into the atmosphere! Methane is the 2nd most significant greenhouse gas.

A Few Thoughts

On the previous Puja, I had been writing something about me & my school life. Later I named it “A Few Thoughts” and submitted to my school magazine authority. But it was deselected for publishing due to some vulnerable topics.

One year later, today, I’m publicly sharing this.

Please contact me to read or to get the pdf file.

Knock-out Cricket Tournament

A single elimination (knock out – one loss & out) cricket tournament has 16 teams competing. How many games must be played to get one champion?

Typically, the majority problem solvers will do something like this –

i) Taking 2 groups of 8 teams, playing 1st round. In each group there are 4 matches, eliminating 4 teams. Total 8 matches & 8 teams remaining in the tournament.

ii) Now 4 Quarter-final matches to get the top 4 teams of the tournament. (8 + 4 = 12 matches so far)

iii) 2 Semi-finals & a final to get the champion. (12 + 2 + 1 = 15 matches total)

A much simpler way to solve this problem is to focus only the losers, not the winners.

“How many losers must be there in a tournament of 16 teams to get one winner?” The answer is simply 15.

“How many games must be played to get 15 losers?” Naturally 15.

That’s the answer.

You're Wrong

When you always try to find errors of some person, sometimes you do find a real one. (Pritam Saha)

5 short ways to find Pi

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A Private SMS to P2

Now I think, you would agree with Koushik that, I’m the worst person in the history of humanity. (Pritam Saha, 8pm 2 Oct 2011 from Nokia 2700c)

No Nobel for Mathematics

Nobel prizes were instituted by the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swede who was a chemist, an industrialist and the inventor of dynamite. Since 1901, prizes have been awarded for achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace – but not in Mathematics. Legend says that Nobel ignored mathematics because his wife rejected him for a mathematician, named Gosta Mittag Leffler. Furthermore, Nobel didn’t consider mathematics a “practical” science that had much impact on society.

That’s why Able prizes have been awarded for achievements in Mathematics.