A Problem Squared

⌚  What time on a digital clock is most pleasing to the eye?🌍  If you start at the equator, and travel north-east, will you ever hit the north pole?🎆  And we have some Any Other (Novem)BernessWe have a bumper catch-up chat about the madness that was Matt’s filming of Getting Triggy With It Live. If you want to see the chaotic-mega-cut then the remaining Custom USB Sticks from the Kickstarter will be available to buy soon. You can bet that we’ll link to them here and on socials once they are available.Some further reading about the UN’s new map projection: https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/09/1168284 Do you have a problem for Bec and Matt to solve? Tell us about it: https://www.aproblemsquared.com/ Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard!If you’re already on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!   If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps. Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.

🟰 How do you round 0.44999999... to 1 decimal place?🐟 What creative things can be done with a fish tank that has no fish?🍂  And we have some Autumnal Other BusinessHead to our BlueSky/Twitter/Instagram to see some platonic solids for platonic friends, some gorgeous Welsh scenery, some diorama inspo, some toilet wine and a really old maths book.BBC Archive: The Street With Confounding House Numbers from 1961 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr6Gxb97W_c  How the Japanese house numbering system works…https://geoawesome.com/how-the-crazy-japanese-addressing-system-works-explained/ Do you have a problem for Bec and Matt to solve? Tell us about it: https://www.aproblemsquared.com/ Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard!If you’re already on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!   If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps. Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.

🧦 Do you put your trousers or socks on first ?👖🎲 How much would a standard pair of dice weigh if they were made up of just protons and neutrons? 🎲🏉 And we have some Australian Ozzie Ballness that may or may not be in the right order.Thank you to everyone who responded to our questionnaire about number and clothing ordering! All the results are in this episode.What would happen if a tablespoonful of a neutron star was brought to Earth? https://www.astronomy.com/science/what-would-happen-if-tablespoonful-neutron-star-was-brought-to-earth/ Take a trip back in time to see Matt putting both his socks on simultaneously: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs7fg27Iiq8 Do you have a problem for Bec and Matt to solve? Tell us about it: https://www.aproblemsquared.com/ Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard!If you’re already on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!   If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps. Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.

#️⃣ How wrong can a sequence of numbers be?👂 What maths-related diagrams that would look good as a pair of earrings?☕ And we have some Any Other Baristaness Here is our dual-purpose Google Form - please answer our questions about number and clothing ordering! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1tTb398TTacxoqlqJHGonkldwDsqnnMN6V4fRagfPOEI/Behold the weird balls! Here is Thomas Fernique’s Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/fernik_art/p/DcVerFCDiwr/ And head to our Instagram to see Matt looking really happy with a weird football and Bec looking really sad with a weird football.Some visuals to inspire designs for duallery - Brown University: Dual Shapes: https://www.math.brown.edu/tbanchof/Beyond3d/chapter5/section03.htmlSome pre-made mathematical earrings from Maths Gear: https://mathsgear.co.uk/collections/jewellery-etc  Vanessa Schattman on the maths of cat’s cradle:https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2026/bridges2026-669.html#gsc.tab=0Do you have a problem for Bec and Matt to solve? Tell us about it: https://www.aproblemsquared.com/ Matt has extended his tour - and he’s filming the show in London in October - all the dates, venues and tickets can be found here: http://standupmaths.com/shows Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard!If you’re already on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!   If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps. Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.

📖 What comes after thrice?☕ How can I increase my chances of winning a free coffee?🎹 And we have some Any Other Beatness Thank you to everyone who sent in audio or visuals of the Thue-Morse pattern!Here is Damien’s Thue-Morse Visualiser which is really fun to play with: https://damienkee.github.io/thue-morese_visualiser/ And here is the keyboard visualisation of Thue-Morse sonified by Seta Lyas: https://www.reddit.com/r/AProblemSquared/comments/1vl0m8s/140_thuemorse_sonified Head to our BlueSky/Twitter/Instagram to see the full run down of Bec’s post-thrice words.Do you have a problem for Bec and Matt to solve? Tell us about it: https://www.aproblemsquared.com/ Matt has extended his tour - and he’s filming the show in London in October - all the dates, venues and tickets can be found here: http://standupmaths.com/shows Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard!If you’re already on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!   If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps. Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.