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Personal blog · threesixty360.wordpress.commathculture
360 is a personal blog at threesixty360.wordpress.com about math and culture. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for math and nature explanations, such as a post on the 3-fold rotational symmetry in pumpkins and one on the 1, 2, 4, 8 number pattern. Both are cited as answers to questions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
12 tables, 24 chairs, and plenty of chalk
What Hacker News says?
The pumpkin flowers have 5 petals, and the female flowers have 5 stigma, but the seeds inside grow in 6 columns. Which I find puzzling. Google brings up https://threesixty360.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/the-mystery-o... which points out a 3-fold rotational symmetry in the pumpkin. And if you look, the 6 seed-columns are really 3 pairs of columns. Five and three seem less puzzling I supposed, because Fibonacci. Still, I…
Comment linking /2009/10/31/the-mystery-of-the-fibonacci-pumpkin/
on “CT Scan of a Pumpkin”Submitted Ethiopian Multiplication as a story · 65 points
HN discussionThis answer is also correct in another way :) http://threesixty360.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/1-2-4-8-what-c...
Comment linking /2008/04/30/1-2-4-8-what-comes-next/
on “9,73,241,561,1081,1849,_?_”Submitted Roman Numerals as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bacteria, Pancakes, and David X. Cohen as a story · 2 points
HN discussion