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Volume 54 - Issue 389 - October 1970

Classroom Notes

219. An integration technique

220. Meccano in the classroom

221. Go!

222. The Reduction of a General Matrix to a Product of Elementary Matrices

223. Three to one, “obtuse”

224. Pour encourager les autres

225. The Comte de Buffon’s Paper Clip

Pythagorean Triples

226. Instant Orthogonal Matrices

227. Divisibility by seven

228. Summation of Finite Series

Mathematical Notes

3267. Structure of antisymmetrical determinants

3268. A simple derivation of the error in Simpson’s rule

3269. Ancient Egypt revisited

3270. The “characteristic function” and set theory

3271. A further note on elephant herds

3272. A particular integral

3273. Additive subgroups of the rationals

3274. An integral mean value theorem

3275. A pitfall in Bessel functions

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