conjecture
A \”Power\”ful Conjecture
Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people! A conjecture came up in a homeschool group the other day. The student had been doing the kind of thing we believe in around here, looking for patterns in numbers, and noticed that the first several \”even powers of 2\” — by which they meant 2 raised to…
Testing Patterns
Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people! This video contains three conjectures, one proof, and one counterexample (and therefore one open conjecture), based on this previous post. The important idea of what we did here is if we can find a formula that\’s equivalent to how we\’re coming up with some numbers, and that formula…