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How to validate a credit card number (click for full pic)

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Man spends 3 years maxing out a perfectly optimized SimCity 3000 city #

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Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal

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Math Overflow, a Questions and Answers site for math problems

Implemented using the platform of Stack Overflow, a Q&A board for programming topics. Beats any old-type forums or wiki sites, they have among other things, an addicting reputation and badge system inspired by Xbox Live.

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“When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection,” by Philip Munz, Ioan Hudea, Joe Imad and Robert J, Smith.

In “Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress,” eds. J.M. Tchuenche and C. Chiyaka, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. pp. 133-150, 2009.

Wired provides a summary.

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Sweet Wolfram Alpha Leaf

The magic word is PolarPlot[(1 + 0.9 Cos[8 t]) (1 + 0.1 Cos[24 t]) (0.9 + 0.05 Cos[200 t]) (1 + Sin[t]), {t, -Pi, Pi}.

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Mathematicians create videos that help in visualizing four-dimensional objects

The article has a broken link to dimensions-math.org.

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