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Written by Alex Bolton on 2024-11-03 at 20:27

Top answers for the Generic Game at #BigMathsJam

There were 73 entries

Mathematician:

Euler: 35

Pythagoras: 15

Branch of Mathematics

Algebra: 23

Geometry: 16

A Famous Mathematical Set

Empty: 20

Mandelbrot: 17

A fruit

Apple: 42

Banana: 20

A colour

Red: 37

Blue: 18

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Written by Tommaths (he/him) on 2024-11-03 at 21:04

@alexdbolton

You missed a question! What about "name"?!

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Written by Alex Bolton on 2024-11-03 at 21:08

@TeaKayB Sam, of course!

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Written by Tommaths (he/him) on 2024-11-03 at 21:55

@alexdbolton

Was it really?!

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Written by Alex Bolton on 2024-11-04 at 12:36

@TeaKayB I've checked the stats and it was indeed Sam. There were 5 Sams, and the next most common were John, Tom, Andrew & James - all with 2 entries

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Written by Tommaths (he/him) on 2024-11-04 at 18:58

@alexdbolton

I'd expected more Toms. Someone's letting the side down.

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Written by Peter Rowlett on 2024-11-03 at 22:04

@alexdbolton nice to see the results! I said Euler, algebra, empty, banana and blue, so not a bad score with three top answers. Fun competition concept!

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Written by Pozorvlak on 2024-11-03 at 22:13

@peterrowlett @alexdbolton I said Euler, geometry, Cantor, apple and red, so four top answers and one second-place! 🎉

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Written by Tommaths (he/him) on 2024-11-04 at 19:01

@peterrowlett

+1 on the "fun competition concept". Very much enjoyed it and would love to see more analysis of the results!

@alexdbolton

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Written by Alex Bolton on 2024-11-05 at 21:02

@TeaKayB @peterrowlett

Mathematician:

Euler 35, Pythagoras 15, Newton 6, Einstein 2, Turing 2, Gauss 2, Pascal 1, Galois 1, Wright 1, Cauchy 1, Bolton 1, Me 1 [i.e. they nominated themself], Erdos 1, Parker 1, Lovelace 1, Steckles 1, Euclid 1

Branch:

Algebra 23, Geometry 16, Number Theory 6, Statistics 5, Calculus 5, Topology 5, Trigonometry 2, Analysis 2, Group Theory 2, Set Theory 2, Probability 1, Pure 1, Arithmetic 1, Game Theory 1, Topography 1 [possibly I'm being mean not correcting Topography to Topology, but it wouldn't affect the results anyway]

Set:

Empty 20, Mandelbrot 17, N 8, Cantor 6, R 6, Z 3, Primes 3, Aleph-null 2, Fibonacci 2, Q 1, The set that does not contain itself 1, Universal 1, Perfect 1, Lego 1, Power 1

Fruit:

Apple 42, Banana 20, Orange 8, Strawberry 1, Kiwi 1, Pear 1

Colour:

Red 37, Blue 18, Orange 8 [everyone who wrote Orange for fruit wrote Orange for colour], Yellow 4, Green 3, Purple 2, Black 1

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Written by Tommaths (he/him) on 2024-11-06 at 08:50

@alexdbolton

That's really interesting! I was an orange-er. Good to know I wasn't entirely on the wrong track choosing it for both colour and fruit.

@peterrowlett

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