Happy Thirdsday: finding a third using only halves
10,929Thirdsday was created (discovered?) by Jim Propp! Read his manifesto here:
https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2018/12/31/introducing-thirdsday/
He's @JimPropp on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JimPropp
Here is James Tanton's video "How to Fold or Split Things into Thirds".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8cD5NMOMcs
Check out the Think Maths resources to help calculate the digits of a third!
https://www.think-maths.co.uk/celebrating-thirdsday
And Evelyn Lamb has done a great write-up about Thirdsday for Scientific American.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/how-to-celebrate-thirdsday/
The animation was by Lucas Vieira and you can read more about it at the end of Jim Propp's post.
http://1ucasvb.com/
https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2018/12/31/introducing-thirdsday/#end1
EVE HAD HIT MAX, FOR THE SLY OLD MAN MAX HAD HID HER PET CAT, MOG, AND SHE WAS SAD BUT SHE DID NOT CRY.
By Hannah Fisher, 2018.
http://twitter.com/allthestations/status/1046836223225057280
CORRECTIONS
- I totally missed a “FOR” in Hannah’s short story. Thank goodness the digits still worked! First spotted by JWB_.
- Let me know if you spot anything else!
Thanks to my Patreon supports who do support these videos and make them possible. Here is a random subset:
Samuel Ytterbrink
David Lake
Lucas Werkmeister
Mark Prince
David Wagner
Support my channel and I can make more maths videos:
https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths
Music by Howard Carter
Filming and editing by Matt Parker
Design by Simon Wright
MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician
Website: http://standupmaths.com/
Maths book: http://wwwh.umble-pi.com
Nerdy maths toys: http://mathsgear.co.uk/