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    <description>Playing around with maths and puzzles was something that the two hosts spent their time at university doing together. Now in their late twenties with proper grown up jobs, Alaric and Alex carve out the occasional evening to sit back and smell the numbers. Not all of the mathematics is entry level, but they envisioned this podcast for those people whose science degrees may be long behind them, but who still get a kick out of recreational numbering. 
If this is your first time listening, episode 4 (http://www.oddsandevenings.com/4) is a good representation of the show as a whole and can be used as a jumping on point.
All episodes can be played in browser here (http://www.oddsandevenings.com/episodes) or you can subscribe on all major podcast apps (http://www.oddsandevenings.com/subscribe).
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    <itunes:summary>Playing around with maths and puzzles was something that the two hosts spent their time at university doing together. Now in their late twenties with proper grown up jobs, Alaric and Alex carve out the occasional evening to sit back and smell the numbers. Not all of the mathematics is entry level, but they envisioned this podcast for those people whose science degrees may be long behind them, but who still get a kick out of recreational numbering. 
If this is your first time listening, episode 4 (http://www.oddsandevenings.com/4) is a good representation of the show as a whole and can be used as a jumping on point.
All episodes can be played in browser here (http://www.oddsandevenings.com/episodes) or you can subscribe on all major podcast apps (http://www.oddsandevenings.com/subscribe).
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  <title>#22 - Pandemics, Padovan’s and Pumpkins</title>
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- Zombies and Vampires
- The Maths of Conversations
- Brunnian Pumpkin Carving</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;The boys get as spooky as they can with cellular automata, have a maths conversation about maths conversations and can't get past the fact that Brunnian and Borromean sound too similar.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Odds and Evenings&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Twitter - &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/OddsAndEvenings" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://twitter.com/OddsAndEvenings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Website - &lt;a href="http://www.oddsandevenings.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;http://www.oddsandevenings.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Topics discussed&lt;/h3&gt;

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&lt;li&gt;Zombies and Vampires&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The Maths of Conversations&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Brunnian Pumpkin Carving&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;h3&gt;Show Notes&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;h4&gt;Follow Up&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.solipsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/MJ_Wiki.py?FrontPage" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Maths Jam Annual Gathering Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://hacking.finance/read/?c=the-shade" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;The Shade (Alex's New Podcast)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4&gt;Maths From the Show&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.alaricstephen.com/main-featured/2016/9/24/modelling-a-pandemic" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;SIR Model Introduction by Alaric&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HxS1GttDPT8eDOhTIfOYckueArSJjGb5VfOr1hgqLno/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;SIR Model You Can Play With&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borromean_rings" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Borromean Rings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunnian_link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Brunnian Links &lt;/a&gt;(more generalised)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pochhammer_contour" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Pochhammer's Countour&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heKK95DAKms&amp;amp;ab_channel=Vihart" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;A Classic Video on Brunnian Links&lt;/a&gt; (in the form of snakes), by Vi Hart&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Credits&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Hosted By &lt;br&gt;
Alaric - &lt;a href="http://alaricstephen.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;http://alaricstephen.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Alex - &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/speakmouthwords" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;http://twitter.com/speakmouthwords&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Editing by Alex&lt;br&gt;
Following of the brief: bring halloween problems by Alaric&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Theme music by David Russell - &lt;a href="https://youtube.com/DavidRussell323" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://youtube.com/DavidRussell323&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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<h3>Odds and Evenings</h3>

<p>Twitter - <a href="https://twitter.com/OddsAndEvenings" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/OddsAndEvenings</a><br>
Website - <a href="http://www.oddsandevenings.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.oddsandevenings.com</a></p>

<h3>Topics discussed</h3>

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<li>Zombies and Vampires</li>
<li>The Maths of Conversations</li>
<li>Brunnian Pumpkin Carving</li>
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<h3>Show Notes</h3>

<h4>Follow Up</h4>

<p><a href="https://www.solipsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/MJ_Wiki.py?FrontPage" rel="nofollow">Maths Jam Annual Gathering Page</a><br>
<a href="https://hacking.finance/read/?c=the-shade" rel="nofollow">The Shade (Alex&#39;s New Podcast)</a></p>

<h4>Maths From the Show</h4>

<p><a href="http://www.alaricstephen.com/main-featured/2016/9/24/modelling-a-pandemic" rel="nofollow">SIR Model Introduction by Alaric</a><br>
<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HxS1GttDPT8eDOhTIfOYckueArSJjGb5VfOr1hgqLno/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">SIR Model You Can Play With</a><br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borromean_rings" rel="nofollow">Borromean Rings</a><br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunnian_link" rel="nofollow">Brunnian Links </a>(more generalised)<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pochhammer_contour" rel="nofollow">Pochhammer&#39;s Countour</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heKK95DAKms&ab_channel=Vihart" rel="nofollow">A Classic Video on Brunnian Links</a> (in the form of snakes), by Vi Hart</p>

<h3>Credits</h3>

<p>Hosted By <br>
Alaric - <a href="http://alaricstephen.com" rel="nofollow">http://alaricstephen.com</a><br>
Alex - <a href="http://twitter.com/speakmouthwords" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/speakmouthwords</a></p>

<p>Editing by Alex<br>
Following of the brief: bring halloween problems by Alaric</p>

<p>Theme music by David Russell - <a href="https://youtube.com/DavidRussell323" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/DavidRussell323</a></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>The boys get as spooky as they can with cellular automata, have a maths conversation about maths conversations and can&#39;t get past the fact that Brunnian and Borromean sound too similar.</p>

<h3>Odds and Evenings</h3>

<p>Twitter - <a href="https://twitter.com/OddsAndEvenings" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/OddsAndEvenings</a><br>
Website - <a href="http://www.oddsandevenings.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.oddsandevenings.com</a></p>

<h3>Topics discussed</h3>

<ul>
<li>Zombies and Vampires</li>
<li>The Maths of Conversations</li>
<li>Brunnian Pumpkin Carving</li>
</ul>

<h3>Show Notes</h3>

<h4>Follow Up</h4>

<p><a href="https://www.solipsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/MJ_Wiki.py?FrontPage" rel="nofollow">Maths Jam Annual Gathering Page</a><br>
<a href="https://hacking.finance/read/?c=the-shade" rel="nofollow">The Shade (Alex&#39;s New Podcast)</a></p>

<h4>Maths From the Show</h4>

<p><a href="http://www.alaricstephen.com/main-featured/2016/9/24/modelling-a-pandemic" rel="nofollow">SIR Model Introduction by Alaric</a><br>
<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HxS1GttDPT8eDOhTIfOYckueArSJjGb5VfOr1hgqLno/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">SIR Model You Can Play With</a><br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borromean_rings" rel="nofollow">Borromean Rings</a><br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunnian_link" rel="nofollow">Brunnian Links </a>(more generalised)<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pochhammer_contour" rel="nofollow">Pochhammer&#39;s Countour</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heKK95DAKms&ab_channel=Vihart" rel="nofollow">A Classic Video on Brunnian Links</a> (in the form of snakes), by Vi Hart</p>

<h3>Credits</h3>

<p>Hosted By <br>
Alaric - <a href="http://alaricstephen.com" rel="nofollow">http://alaricstephen.com</a><br>
Alex - <a href="http://twitter.com/speakmouthwords" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/speakmouthwords</a></p>

<p>Editing by Alex<br>
Following of the brief: bring halloween problems by Alaric</p>

<p>Theme music by David Russell - <a href="https://youtube.com/DavidRussell323" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/DavidRussell323</a></p>]]>
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