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MMM #22 Winner

The winner for this edition of MMM is Henno Brandsma. Congratulations Henno on solving the problem and calming my nerves that I have less than 1% chance of having the virus. In fact almost everyone who submitted (23 this time) got it correct! Maybe we need more difficult problems like the Martian [...]

The Problem Statement
I got extremely sick and was wondering if I got a weird virus. I heard there was this Grinch Bug going around, making you sick throughout Christmas Holiday. I decided to go to the hospital to get it checked out. The doctor told me their test measurements are 99 percent accurate (regardless [...]

MMM #12 Winner

The results are in, and the winner for MMM #12 is Anneleen Van Geenhoven! She will be receiving a $10 Amazon gift certificate. We only had 9 submissions this time, but a whopping 2500+ visits. This was a challenging problem so thanks to everyone who participated!
Correct Submissions
Lieven Marchand
Kinks

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The Problem Statement

Tired of the Earth obstructing his view of Venus, Marvin the Martian desires to destroy the Earth with his Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator. The only thing stopping him is his distant cousin Jeffrey’s belief that there are intelligent life forms on Earth. In order to show Marvin that there are [...]

On 12/14/2007, I received an email from Doug Hull, who runs the Pick of the Week blog at the official MathWork’s website. In his email, he was interested in featuring blinkdagger as the Pick of the Week! Of course, we were pretty excited that a MATLAB celebrity like Doug would recognize a blog [...]