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Young tableau with no i in row i, name that derangement

This question has its genesis in a group assignment: $k$ students are to be given oral exams. Each student will be asked one distinct question from $n$ questions given to them earlier, no two students …
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How does one find out what's happening in contemporary mathematics research?

Some conferences may post lectures online. For example, the Banff International Research Station (https://www.birs.ca/) hosts a 5 day workshop nearly every week on a contemporary topic with leading re …
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How the Fast Fourier Transform got its name

Turning my comment above into an answer, for those who don't have acces to the article. Huang's one page paper is satirical, and explains why the algorithm is named after what is does instead of who …
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Repeatedly indexing into an $\infty$-sequence of integers

Suppose a sequence $s_k = (a_1, a_2, \ldots)$ has $s_k = s_{k+1}$. Then $a_i = a_{a_i}$, and by injectivity of $f$ (and hence iterations of $f$), we have $a_i = i$. So there is just one fixed sequence …
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A hypercube-related graph

Conway & Sloane's "Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups" references Coxeter's "Regular Polytopes" for the phrase "halfcube", but Coxeter only uses the notation $h\Pi_n$, saying $h$ can be taken to sta …
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