Wednesday 26 June 2024

Is there an Election on?

 I bought a local paper today thinking it might have details of the candidates in the General Election on 4th July, but there is no mention of anything there! Aren't local "hustings" held here?

The BBC website has a list of eight candidates standing here, in Crewe and Nantwich, but so far I have only had one leaflet from the Labour Party candidate Connor Naismith. 

I suppose people are expected to vote on Party lines rather than by assessing the virtues of the individual candidates.  

Friday 14 June 2024

Visit from Ayliean

 On 3 June I had a visit from Ayliean MacDonald, who publishes a number of videos on YiuTube and in Numberphile on knight's tours and other mathematical topics. 

Ayliean was interested in acquiring my "Archive on Knight's Tours", consisting mainly of photocopies of old documents and correspondence relating to the subject, accumulated over fifty years or more. 

We loaded them into her Renault for the long journey to Inverness. 

This video in her series includes my results on magic knight tours on the 16x16 board with biaxial symmetry using my "split and fix method".

More Magic Knight’s Tours, Hidden Inside Magic Knight’s Tours (youtube.com)    

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Photo added to post 25 August