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Michael Borcherds

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Dr Smoky Furby @drsmokyfurby.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Barney Maunder-Taylor says a square-based pyramid is exactly twice the volume of a triangular-based one (same side length). He doesn't want the tedious trig approach to proving it though, he wants a more intuitive route. He'll try the usual proof by @geogebra.org instead #mathsjam
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Association for Mathematics in Education @amiemathematics.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
📣 We’re excited to welcome you to the newly formed Association for Mathematics in Education! After bringing together five long-standing associations, we’re proud to unite our communities, expertise, and energy under our new association. Watch our welcome video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uLL...
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Welcome to AMiE
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Big MathsJam @bigmathsjam.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
We’re looking forward to seeing everyone at MathsJam Gathering this weekend - follow along here to see what people are sharing, and use #mathsjam to share your favourite moments!
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yomna @rival-elf.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
After some confusing back and forth interactions, I've realized that "I moved the meeting back by 30 min" is interpretable as both: - "moved earlier by 30 min", and - "moved later by 30 min"
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robinhouston @robinhouston.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2025
If anyone wants to try printing this and testing it in the real world, the model here might be more suitable: it has slightly rounded edges, and the faces are slightly inset to give more clearance when assembling it. skfb.ly/pzDKY
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Third of a cube (assemblable, with clearance) - Download Free 3D model by robinhouston
This is exported from BurrTools with the following parameters: Unit size: 10.00 Bevel: 0.30 Offset: 0.1 Wall Thickness: 0.00 Tubes size: 0.05 Leave inside grooves: no Leave outside grooved: no Remove grooves in void: no - Third of a cube (assemblable, with clearance) - Download Free 3D model by robinhouston
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robinhouston @robinhouston.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2025
I spent hours yesterday (on a long plane journey) failing to solve Stewart Coffin's Four Fit puzzle. I tried everything I could think of, and nothing worked. If you know the solution please don't tell me.
A photograph of a tray-packing puzzle, showing a tray containing three pentominos with a fourth pentomino separately. The puzzle is to fit all four into the tray.
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robinhouston @robinhouston.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025
// Here is some OpenSCAD code, if you want to understand how I made it, or to make your own: r = 10; h = 60; module hex_prism(i) { rotate([acos(1/sqrt(3)), 0, i * 90]) linear_extrude(height = h, center=true) circle(r, $fn=6); } for(i=[0 : 1 : 3]) for(j=[i + 1 : 1 : 3]) for(k=[j + 1 : 1 : 3]) […]
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robinhouston @robinhouston.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2025
The first prototype came out better than I expected, though there's a lot of room for improvement still.
A pile of small white plastic pieces, tetrahedral with protruding pegs and holes so they can be joined to each other
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Fractal Kitty @fractalkitty.com · 30/08/2025
A noperthedron container printed! #mathart #mtbos #noperthedron #polyhedra
Close up of side of turquoise noperthedron on a table. The shape is turquoise with triangulation where the band around it Center has smaller triangles and the top and bottom have longer triangles creating a belt around it that is more bulbus.A turquoise 3d printed  bulbous triangulated vase on a table with some rocks and weaving.
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Fractal Kitty @fractalkitty.com · 29/08/2025
I am printing a noperthedron pencil holder :) #mtbos #mathart #noperthedron
A teal noperthedron with a cylindrical hole in a drafting program with shadowing. The shape is vase-like with triangulated faces, but bulbous at the center and slanted inward at the top in bottom so that there is a band of 3 layers of shorter triangles in the middle and longer more angled-in triangles at the top and base of the vase (container).
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Jean-Baptiste Etienne @jeanbaptisteet4.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Patrons de pyramides "coupées" par un plan. #geogebra : www.geogebra.org/m/kjmjkmkj #math #pyramid #net #geometry #patron
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El Jj @eljj.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
- Tu sais utiliser Geogebra ? - Oui, bien sur. Je l'utilise tout le temps pour réaliser des figures de géométrie un peu difficiles. Mon utilisation réelle de Geogebra :
Un rouleau de papier toilette incroyablement modélisé dans Geogebra.
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Dr Cornelia Hofmann @coenneli.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Yes to everything that has already been mentioned. Additionally, I use some geogebra constructions as well (especially for linear optics, nice interactive demos for images from lenses, and multi-sense-systems)
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Ignacio Larrosa Cañestro @ilarrosa.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
La Esfenocorona es un poliedro convexo con 12 △ equil. y 2 □, 22 aristas y 10 vértices. De estos, en 2 inciden 2 △ y 2 □, en ese orden; en 4 inciden 3 △ y un □; en los 4 restantes 5 △. Es el sólido de Johnson J86. #GeoGebra ilarrosa.github.io/GeoGebra/Esf... ilarrosa.github.io/GeoGebra
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Peter Kagey @peterkagey.com · 06/10/2025
Sure thing! I wrote a blog post just for you which includes links to the STL files.
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Pentagonal icositetrahedron puzzle
A puzzle on the faces of the pentagonal icositetrahedron with 3D models, STL files, photos, and video illustrations
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Big MathsJam @bigmathsjam.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
In-person tickets are selling fast for the MathsJam UK Gathering - join us (in-person or remotely!) for a weekend of recreational maths in a conference centre and meet others who also love maths! Details at www.mathsjam.com/gat...
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
As well as our monthly pub meetings, there are also bigger annual MathsJam gatherings - one in the UK around November, and one in Oceania (New Zealand) - for details visit mathsjam.com/gathering
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Estes, John @johnestesmath.bsky.social · 04/03/2021
Tomorrow in Cal: The amazing e^x whose derivative is e^x. @geogebra makes these visuals so easy.
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Dave Richeson @divbyzero.bsky.social · 18/11/2022
I've been seeing ads for the Shashibo toy. It looked like a more elaborate version of the kaleidocycle, which is fun to make out of paper. Shashibo is a ring of pyramids that comes in the shape of a cube but can be rearranged into a variety of shapes....
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Benjamin Cornish @mathematicians-pod.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Hello @tmip.bsky.social et al. Let me introduce my submission for the April Animation prompt of a 'Polyhedral Net'. I went with the type used for fishing, I hope you enjoy it. #geogebra #mathanimations #mathsky #mathsanimationtmip youtu.be/fCtsAXOo4NU
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The 'net' of a Polyhedron as a Stereographic Projections - TMIP Animation Challenge
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tellurik.bsky.social @tellurik.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
#PythonGgb : courbe de Gosper, un poil plus alambiquée que la ligne de Hilbert... Défi personnel, mais peu de plus value didactique par rapport aux usages séparés de #python et de @geogebra. En classe, moins de spectaculaire, mais plus de géométrie dynamique ! geogebra.org/python/index...
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Dave Richeson @divbyzero.bsky.social · 21/08/2019
I made this @geogebra applet that lets you play with Johan Gielis's polar super-formula. You can use it to make interesting shapes like these. www.geogebra.org/m/pprqzpja
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Instituto GeoGebra de Galicia @geogebragalicia.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Xa podemos empezar a desvelar cousiñas... <<¿Hasta dónde podemos llegar con GeoGebra?>> é o título da ponencia coa que nos vai deleitar @bancoche.bsky.social no IV Día GeoGebra de Galicia. #ourense #15febreiro #diageogebragalicia @geogebra.org
¿Hasta dónde podemos llegar con GeoGebra?
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Tim Brzezinski @tbrzezinski.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Klein Bottle exploration in #GeoGebra #3d calculator with AR: youtube.com/shorts/NDXlX...
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Laura Morera @lau-morera.bsky.social · 01/06/2020
Aquesta setmana els problemes del concurs d'@innovamat_cat estan ambientats en #GeoGebra i aprofitem per fer-li una mica d'homenatge a en Pep Bujosa, que va ser el primer que em va presentar el software! Sempre et tindrem present. innovamat.com/contest/ca/con…
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Nicolas Chiaruttini @nkiaru.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
I played a bit with llms and physics sketch generation, it's not a well defined benchmark, but out of Model =[gemini, chatgpt, mistral, claude] x OutputFormat=[Undefined, svg, tikz, geogebra], Claude + Geogebra is the current winner. My prompt - without output format, is posted below
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Naomi @naomihmaths.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Beaded Archimedean Solids!!! I had lots of fun over the past two weeks making these for the pigeonholes at the TMiP conference. [Each n-regular graph has an n-colouring and there's a pair of colours on each one which form a Hamiltonian cycle.] #TMiP25 #MathsArt #MathArt #Polyhedra
Beaded Archimedean Solids made of colourful beads on a grey background.
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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 09/09/2024
Wolfram Alpha is revolutionary
a screen where the user has asked for "48 random digits" and the computer has replied with "left little finger, right index finger, left second toe, left third toe, right thumb" 48 times
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Daniel Hașegan @dhasemusic.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Some people were interested in my 3D brain puzzle 🧠 🖨️, so I added it to Thingiverse for anyone to download and print! I made it a few years ago for my niece so she can learn about the brain. Let me know if you get to use it; I would love to see the results! www.thingiverse.com/thing:7000013
A 3D print of a brain colored pink that is within a black frame.The right hemisphere of a 3D printed brain.Pieces of the 3D brain puzzle with one of the pieces separated.One of the hemisphere of the 3d brain puzzle with all the pieces separated.
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Dave Richeson @divbyzero.bsky.social · 27/03/2014
3D print Iwahiro's Apparently Impossible Cube puzzle. (Watch the video to see how it works.) via @mikeandallie bit.ly/NZfaTY
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Apparently Impossible Cube by richgain
Iwahiro's Apparently Impossible Cube is an example of a c...
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Geometry Dynamics Heidelberg @geodyn-heidelberg.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The game Dobble/Spot It! has an interpretation within projective geometry. The game with 7 different symbols then corresponds to the Fano-Plane. A model for this can be seen in the picture above, and is also available for you to print yourself: www.thingiverse.com/thing:5210739 #math #geometry
Picture of a 3D-printed Fano Plane
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Dave Richeson @divbyzero.bsky.social · 12/06/2022
A hyperboloid made from drinking straws. (I wish I had non-bendy straws.) 3D print from cults3d.com/en/3d-model/home/math-t…
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RobertLovesPi @robertlovespi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The Ninth Stellation of the Dual of the Rhombic Octagonoid robertlovespi.net/2024/10/26/t... This is what my #blog has the most of: rotating .gifs of various #polyhedra I make with #Stella 4d: #Polyhedron Navigator. To see it move, just follow the link.
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The Ninth Stellation of the Dual of the Rhombic Octagonoid
The rhombic octagonoid, from which this polyhedron is derived, can be found here. I made this stellation of its dual using Stella 4d, which you can try for free at this website. The non-stellated d…
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Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
my polyhedral puzzle printing project (that's a mouthful!) yielded these two guys. These are after Stewart Coffin designs www.johnrausch.com/PuzzlingWorl... Figures 101 and 107, respectively - the second and third stellation of the rhombic dodecahedron.
Two 3d printed geometric puzzles - one in orange, black, and white, the seconds stellation of the rhombic dodecahedron, the other in purple, black, and white, the third stellation. From designs by Stewart Coffin
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Andrew Stacey @mathforge.org · 22/12/2024
Finished. #Christmas #origami #mathsky
A completed modular origami model. The assembly is icosahedral, and the final model looks like a stellated icosahedron with a tetrahedron with 90° isosceles triangles attached to each face of the icosahedron.

The origami paper is duo, with one side plain green and the other has a red background with golden baubles of various sizes and designs. The module is tolled so that the green shows at the apices of the stellation, wile the red shows at the edges and vertices of the underlying icosahedron.

The model is placed in a bowl made from recycled newspapers laid out in a spiral, giving an effect something like an old vinyl record.
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Eve 🐙 @xehsu.northsky.social · 20/06/2023
I’ll accept BlueSky isn’t following the same pattern of benefiting off of users when the year of the Linux desktop comes to fruition.
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 16/06/2023
Holy crap! The New Yorker says my book is one of the best books of 2023 (so far)!!! www.newyorker.com/best-books-2023
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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 13/06/2023
The FTC has filed a request for an injunction to block Microsoft from closing its Activision Blizzard deal. If the FTC is unsuccessful then Microsoft says it welcomes the opportunity to fast track the FTC case in a federal court. Details:
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FTC files to block Microsoft from buying Activision Blizzard
A judge will now need to decide whether to grant the request.
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Hacker News Bot @newsycombinator.bsky.social · 14/06/2023
Recovering secret keys from devices using video footage of their power LED (nassiben.com) Main Link | HN Post
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 14/06/2023
hi im nora i make little jewels out of glass in my kiln. please buy them. www.nora.jewelry
pink bookmark rainbow leaf puddle pendant rainbow palette pendant distorted lines pride pendant
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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 14/06/2023
This app has unfortunately gotten just big enough that you're starting to get people in the replies who read your posts with the most bad faith interpretation imaginable.
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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 10/06/2023
here's my story on Octopus Energy's Agile tariff and how you can get free and much cheaper electricity in the UK right now www.theverge.com/23755092/free-elec…
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How to get free electricity in the UK
Octopus Energy is passing on big electricity savings to British consumers.
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logotrope @logotrope.xyz · 03/06/2023
Need to find electronics DIY Arduino rpi esp32 microcontroller type people on here, help
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Eve 🐙 @xehsu.northsky.social · 09/06/2023
One example that I did years before iot was a thing was to measure the temperature in different rooms to determine where heating needs to be activated based off a set of rules (schedule). I just had a relay wired into the thermostats controlled by an Arduino that sent data via zigbee to a server.
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Ben Johnson 🏺👻 @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 12/06/2023
Solar and wind produced more electricity than coal in the US over the first half of the year for the first time! www.scientificamerican.com/article/…
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