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== Beyond Plausible ==
{{Beyond Plausible/February 2}}


== Are You Sure ==
== Are You Sure ==


{{Are You Sure/February 2}}
{{Are You Sure/February 2}}
== On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction ==
{{Selected anniversaries/February 2}}


== Topic of the Day ==
== Topic of the Day ==


{{Daily Favorites/February 2}}
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Revision as of 05:39, 2 February 2023

Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

Are You Sure

• ... that Binet's Formula, which expresses Fibonacci numbers in closed form, is named in honor of Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, although the same result was known to Abraham de Moivre a century earlier?

• ... that CSI: Reptile Gastrointestinal Unit is a television crime drama show featuring a team of herpetological gastroenterologists who solve crimes related to reptile ingestion, digestion, and excretion?

• ... that philosopher Imre Lakatos tried to establish that no theorem of informal mathematics is final or perfect, and that we should not think that a theorem is ultimately true, only that no counterexample has yet been found?

Topic of the Day

Telephones