#math and fun

[presswoodterryryan]

9 Cool Facts About Pi for ARIEL'S 9th Birthday! 🎉✍️

By Mr. Fluffernutter, the smartest bunny in the universe! 🐰✨ Oh my whiskers! It’s a very special day—Ariel is turning 9 years old today! I still remember last year’s birthday when she had a math-themed party, complete with a Pi-shaped cake and a game where everyone tried to recite as many digits of Pi as they could. Spoiler alert: I won! 🎉 This year, we’re celebrating by learning even more about…

[theimaginationstationpodcast]

The Number Knights: A Math Adventure for Kids! 🦁🐰🦓🐒 | Fun Learning Story for Ages 4-8

Join Leo the Lion, Luna the Rabbit, Zara the Zebra, and Monty the Monkey—the brave Number Knights—on an epic quest to save their magical kingdom, Calculasia! When the evil Lord Oblivion steals the Golden Equation, the source of all math magic, the friends must solve puzzles, crack codes, and use their math skills to restore balance. From counting rivers to shape-swamp rescues, this adventure is…

[lemongogo]

life of regret

[echo-has-queries]

Writing multiple fics about the same characters at the same time is so wild. Like: What are you in the mood for today, blorbo? Do you want to experience the harrowing ordeal of growing up in an impoverished neighborhood that has increasing amounts of monstrous murder happening? Or do you wanna go to math camp?

[this-too-shall-bleed]

fuck sorry I had to do a billford version of this

[locusfandomtime]

The maths fandom is wild. “Real” and “imaginary” numbers? I think you mean canon and non-canon. You guys seriously go “this is my number oc his name is i and he is the square root of -1” when in numbers canon lore it’s actually impossible to square root a negative but sure whatever. “Complex numbers”? I think you mean a character x oc ship. “f(x) = 3x - 5”? That is self-insert fanfiction.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

they tried to rebrand as The Criminals but riz is literally the city council's treasurer and also turns out people in their late 20s don't really name their friend groups. so now they're The Intrepid Heroes

[pragretti]

Okami themed grad caps for graduation. Amy could graduate college. Sun and moon themed to match. Hand marbled paper for the cover. How could I not add flowers.🌸🌌

[szimmetria-airtemmizs]

Mathematical fun fact of the day 4. You can divide a hexagon into nine identical convex pentagons.

[mushramoo]

whip scorpion creature for my ent prof :) I fucking love bugs

[tanoraqui]

[rpwickit]

Here's my make-believe shipping math system to explain Aotsumi. And no, I won't tell you why.

[bleeding-seraphic]

Am I allowed to make an ENAsona? Too late I made one already

[breadandlottery]

One man. Three personas. Each one a foil to the protagonist in a different way.

[sso-maev]

PUTTING JORVIK ON THE MAP: SIZE AND LOCATION

WHERE IS JORVIK?

Finding Jorvik’s exact location is actually pretty easy.

”Jorvik, located somewhere between Norway, Iceland, and the British Isles, of which it was once part, is a nexus of worlds.” - Jorvik Calling, Prologue.

This is still a pretty large area, but one that’s significantly narrowed down by reading Four Stories from Jorvik. Anne’s segment Midnight Sun establishes that Jorvik is at the very least partly above the arctic circle, to the point where Anne can see it while riding by Jorvik Stables in the middle of the night. This also puts Jorvik pretty close to the tectonic rift between the European and American continental plates, which handily explains why Jorvik is a volcanic Island.

HOW BIG IS JORVIK?

Jorvik’s size requires a bit more speculation, and I’m relying on two book sources.

1: Jorvik stables is a bus trip from Jorvik city.

Anne lives in Jorvik City but goes to school with the other soul riders in Jarlaheim, and has her horse at Jorvik stables. We know that she goes there by bus, so the distance between Jarlaheim and Jorvik City shouldn’t be too large; I’m capping the max length of the bus ride to about an hour.

2: Valedale is less than a day’s ride from the wineyard.

In The Legend Awakens, Elizabeth and the soul riders are heading to Pi’s Swamp and sleep over at the Wineyard. The soul riders wake up late and leave after having eaten breakfast and lunch. The sun is ”at its highest point in the sky” when they leave, so probably around 1-2PM. It’s twilight when they arrive, and the Baroness comments that they showed up in time for the evening feeding of the horses. Since the days are shorter in late October/early November, which is when this chapter takes place, we can guess that they arrived at around 5-6 PM.

Mapping out the most likely routes for these two trips, the route to the Wineyard is about a third of the bus route from Jorvik City to Jarlaheim. Additionally, the bus would drive on average ~70 km/h because of Jorvik’s smaller roads. The average walking speed of a horse is 6 km/h.

Now, the Valedale-Wineyard trip could take anywhere between 3-5 hours, but I’m inclined to believe that it’s on the lower end of that scale to keep Anne’s commute as short as possible. That leaves us with a 18 km long ride, and a 54 km long bus tour that takes 46 minutes. Pretty reasonable!

RESULTS

With these new measurements, we can figure out the actual distance between different places on Jorvik. Most importantly, we can measure the absolute width from Jorviks westernmost to easternmost point: 92 km, or ~57 miles!

Having figured out an estimate of the island’s size and location, we can now put Jorvik on the map!

[vladede]

commission for @jimmyjrsmusoems 💖