Dear Readers,
What name can you think of involving just M and Y? This was a fun, quick, wee warm-up puzzle because M AND Y makes MANDY, in honour of a lovely friend of mine 😊.
Now get ready to solve for X !
It’s all for a good cos., you’ll get a free tan…
and soon the teacher smiling at your work will be a bright sine! 😊
P.S. Congratulations for figuring out that the island is approximately 17.1 metres from the beach.
Earlier today, I wrote to another friend to thank him for having shared, via Facebook, a beautiful Maths problem involving Trigonometry. His initials are M.E., and his wonderful puzzles are greatly appreciated by me! 😊
I found that the general solution is x = Pi/4 + n*Pi/2
where n is any integer and x is in radian measure (instead of degrees).
During the process of solving the equation, I made repeated use of the most famous Pythagorean Trigonometric Identity marked with a double star in the photo below.
Math J😊kes + M😊re: Did you know that about 3.14% of sailors are Pi-rates!?
because 114+200=314 or approx. Pi*1😊😊
A ZIGZAG W😊RD PUZZLE
Use all the letters of A ZIGZAG to make the 7-letter name of the city in Egypt where my friend M.E. lives.
I think that M.E. is interested in Chess, and so here comes a b😊nus puzzle in which it’s White to move and force checkmate in not more than 4 moves.
Today is November 12, and in another 12 days’ time it will be my nephew’s birthday. On that day, it will also be exactly 10 years and 114 days since the above chess game was played; a fitting conclusion to Blog Post #114.
Congratulations for finding 1 Kg1!, after which Black has nothing better than 1…Qd6 allowing 2 Rxf8+ Qxf8 3 Rh2+ Qh6 4 Rxh6#, checkmate!
I would like to wish everyone a very happy weekend now.
With kindest wishes as always,
Paul M😊twani xxx
Paul Motwani 