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Some old UK exam papers
from 1963 and 1965. Have a look at some old 'O' level, 'A' level and other exam papers.
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Fawlty Powers. Major Problems in a Torquay Hotel
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A Perpetual Motion Wheel.
The Great Weighted Wheel - loaded with 40 cannon balls- was built at the Tower of London in the 17th century by its inventor, Edward Somerset, The Second Marquis of Worcester and claimed to be a Perpetual Motion Machine. This Mathematics Today article proves the wheel is incapable of Perpetual Motion.
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Sherlock Holmes.
On the trail of Moriarty in The Case of the Counterfeit Error Function."A Must Read" - Strand Magazine
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Pensions By Dickens.
David Copperfield consults Uriah Heep and Mr. Micawber about early retirement
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Computer Algebra Packages.
Some observations on their use in Engineering Mathematics
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Minimum Width Confidence Interval
for the 'F' density
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Problem solving using simple statistics.
A practical case study in a West Midlands foundry producing bath taps
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The logo at the top of this page is a family of curves. The topmost is Maxwell's catenary - the locus of the focus of a parabola rolled along a straight line. The other curves are generated by other points spread along the axis of the same rolling parabola.