A Problem Squared

🧦 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 

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#️⃣ 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.html

Some 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=0

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!   
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📖 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!   
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📺 How long would it take to watch all of YouTube?
🪧 How can you make an interesting public display board without damaging the walls?
🏖️ And we have Any Other Beachness (it’s a bit windy and a bit crabby)

Head to our BlueSky/Twitter/Instagram to see Matt and Bec’s differing experiences of the solar eclipse.

Here’s Count Binface and Matt the Count Binface Count Agent getting papped in Clacton: https://tinyurl.com/2h7apka7 
And here's Matt's Stand-Up Maths video - Can Count Binface win? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zn1pGRgEoo
If you like the sound of David Elms Describes A Room, you can find out more here: ⁠https://www.davidelmsdescribesaroom.com/⁠ 

Here are the places to go for a deep dive into YouTube Stats:
https://tubestats.org/ 
Counting YouTube Videos via Random Prefix Sampling: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/2068816.2068851 
A Transparent, Replicable, and Large-Scale Census of YouTube Channels and their Subscriber Counts Over Time https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06999 

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.

👬 How do you know if a work-friend is a real-friend?
⭕ What would happen if Pi was 4?
😴 And we have Any Other Boring-Stories…

Head to our BlueSky/Twitter/Instagram to see Bec’s selfies with The Stars of Space (real and fictional), and the cute-faced Rivian Car.

Why not try Hyperbolic Crochet?!
https://startcrochet.com/ultimate-beginners-guide-to-hyperbolic-crochet/

Why not try a checked 25x25 grid crossword from Sweden?!
https://fatherben.se/wordpress/digitalt-korsord-i-sydsvenskan/ 

Robert Llewelyn’s YouTube channel - Everything Electric CARS 

If you’re at the Edinburgh Fringe and would like to see Bec’s Work In Progress show, tickets are available here: https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/bec-hill-s-work-in-progress 

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 

Want to pose a problem for Bec and Matt to solve? Head over to https://www.aproblemsquared.com/ 

Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard!
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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.