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Tonight's the night! For anyone joining in at home, here's this month's MathsJam Shout with some puzzles and games for you to enjoy (no spoilers please!) https://mathsjam.com/shout/MJShout.pdf

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Tomorrow evening is MathsJam, taking place online and in pubs all over the world! Find your nearest and join some people doing maths for fun by visiting https://mathsjam.com .

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One week to go until MathsJam - an opportunity to meet other maths fans, and do maths, in a pub or virtual pub. Find out more and join in at https://mathsjam.com

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MathsJam is a monthly opportunity for like-minded self-confessed maths enthusiasts to get together in a pub and share stuff they like. Puzzles, games, problems, or just anything they think is cool or interesting. See how to join in at https://mathsjam.com !

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As well as our monthly pub meetings, there are also larger annual MathsJam gatherings - one in the UK around November, and one in Oceania (New Zealand) - for details visit https://mathsjam.com/gathering

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Simon Tatham (@simontatham@hachyderm.io) Followups from my previous post inspired me to invent the word 'microbored': the level of boredom that happens when something is right on the threshold where you look for something else to do. For example, if I'm waiting for a compile that takes 1 second, I'll just sit for a second until it's done; if it takes 5 minutes or more then I _obviously_ need to find something to do while I wait (go make a coffee, open up a blog post, check Mastodon, whatever). But somewhere in between, at maybe the 10–20 second mark, it's a dilemma: sitting for 20 seconds doing nothing is a bit annoying, but anything I start doing in those 20 seconds won't be finished when I need to get back to looking at the results of the compile, and maybe the mental context switch costs more than it saves. That's microboredom. It's not _too_ unpleasant in itself (there are much worse forms of boredom). But it's a more insidious waste of your time than a 5-minute delay, _because_ there's no way to spend the time more usefully or pleasantly.

Manchester: we have also discussed this idea of how long you might wait for something vs go and do another task: https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/116278314119803729

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Manchester: the multilink cubes have inspired some thinking about the 3D version of the tiling puzzle from the Shout...

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photo of a little guy made out of multilink cubes sat in a table in a pub surrounded by MathsJam detritus

photo of a little guy made out of multilink cubes sat in a table in a pub surrounded by MathsJam detritus

Manchester have been playing with multilink cubes, and have had a go at the puzzles on the Shout.

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Nottingham having fun with Double Negative both working out possible solutions by hand and by spreadsheet to see the pattern.

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King's Lynn jam is kicking off at table 18 #maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaths

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Cheltenham are on table 41. One of the round ones in the restaurant area to the left.

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Exeter is on table 18 this month! Right through the front doors and to your left on the first far wall.

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UK London: grabbed table 3 but can expand, come find us we have games and puzzles

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Manchester: we're here a bit early but are currently trading our favourite methods for determining the height of a building using a barometer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometer_question

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It's MathsJam day! For anyone joining in at home, here's this month's MathsJam Shout with some puzzles and games for you to enjoy (no spoilers please!) https://mathsjam.com/shout/MJShout.pdf

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Tomorrow night is MathsJam, taking place online and in pubs around the world! Find your nearest and join some fellow maths fans by visiting https://mathsjam.com .

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Only one week until MathsJam - an opportunity to meet other people who enjoy maths, and have fun in the sum(s), in a pub or virtual pub. Find out more and join in at https://mathsjam.com

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MathsJam is a monthly opportunity for like-minded self-confessed maths enthusiasts to get together in a pub and share stuff they like. Puzzles, games, problems, or just anything they think is cool or interesting. See how to join in at https://mathsjam.com !

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Manchester are on the tables we are always on, under the stairs opposite the bar - 3 people so far, mainly chatting about furnituremoving, dice and mice.

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Exeter is at table 17 right near the entrance, can't miss it

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Cheltenham MathsJam are on table 40 at the Norwood Arms.

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LON UK: we are on table 16, come find us we have puzzles and games

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MathsJam is today! For anyone joining in at home, here's this month's MathsJam Shout with some puzzles and games to keep you busy (no spoilers please!) https://mathsjam.com/shout/MJShout.pdf

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Sydney Mathsjam is at the General Gordon hotel. Having a look at stuff from the 2018 Gathering4Gardner gift exchange

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Tomorrow is MathsJam, taking place online and in pubs all over the world! Find your local and join some recreational maths friends by visiting https://mathsjam.com .

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Exeter MathsJam is returning next week in a new, much more central location: the Imperial, only a few minutes' walk from St Davids! Please email exeter@mathsjam.com if you're interested, so we know how many to expect.

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Only one week until MathsJam - an opportunity to meet other maths fans, and solve puzzles, in a pub or virtual pub. Find out more and join in at https://mathsjam.com

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MathsJam is a monthly opportunity for like-minded self-confessed maths enthusiasts to get together in a pub and share stuff they like. Puzzles, games, problems, or just anything they think is cool or interesting. Get involved at https://mathsjam.com !

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As well as our monthly pub meetings, there are also bigger annual MathsJam gatherings - one in the UK in about November, and one in Oceania (New Zealand) - for details visit https://mathsjam.com/gathering

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At least this is a more family-friendly problem than Fermat.

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