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The Lost Math Lessons
Personal blog · lostmathlessons.blogspot.commath
The Lost Math Lessons is a personal blog at lostmathlessons.blogspot.com about math. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “The Lost Math Lessons: Bouncing DVD Logo”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts that work through the math behind the bouncing DVD logo screensaver, including when it hits a corner. HN readers link it as the explanation for that behaviour.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
As a high school math teacher, I often run across or develop math ideas that are not taught in a typical math curriculum. Here are some of those ideas.
Most-linked posts?
- The Lost Math Lessons: Bouncing DVD Logo3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-04-16
What Hacker News says?
Here's the math: http://lostmathlessons.blogspot.com/2016/03/bouncing-dvd-log...
Comment linking /2016/03/bouncing-dvd-logo.html
on “Put the DVD logo in the corner (2023)”Submitted The Lost Math Lessons: Bouncing DVD Logo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Lost Math Lessons: Bouncing DVD Logo (2016) as a story · 1 points
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