# Mathspp Blog

### A blog dedicated to mathematics and programming!

This blog has a really interesting assortment of articles on mathematics and programming. You can use the tags to your right to find topics that interest you, or you may want to have a look at

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##### Solving mazes with programming

I have always loved solving mazes... so naturally I had to write a program to solve mazes for me!

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##### HueHue: a colourful game

HueHue is a very colourful game I wrote with my colleague @inesfmarques.

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##### Problem #004 - solvability of the water buckets

In this post I talked about the riddle of the water buckets. Now I challenge you to prove that in some situations it is impossible to solve it!

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##### Water buckets riddle

Can you measure exactly $$2$$L of water with two plain buckets with volumes of $$14$$L and $$5$$L? Of course you can!

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##### Finding all strings a regular expression can find

A regular expression, without much rigor, is a very compact way of representing several different strings. Given a regular expression (regex), can I find out all the strings the regex can find?

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Let's prove that there are two irrational numbers, call them $$a$$ and $$b$$, such that $$a^b$$ is a rational number! And let's do it in a tweet.

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##### Problem #003 - a quarrel in the Shire

Gandalf has some Hobbits to appease but his task seems to go on forever. Can you give him a hand..?

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##### Problem #002 - a bag full of numbers

Two friends were bored and decided to play a game... a mathematical game with a paper bag!

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##### Problem #001 - a dancing triangle

This post's format will be a bit different from the usual and the first of a series of posts of this type. In this post, I will state a problem and then present my solution.