On Tuesday, 6 May 1760, the Order of the Garter conducted the installation of a knight at Windsor Castle, outside London. A day of ceremony and festivity, participated in by a throng of knights, nobility, clergy, and others, ended with a splendid ball and supper.1 On Wednesday most of those who attended as well as numerous servants made their way back to London (1). Among the travelers were fou...

The BBP, BBP-type, Adamchik-Wagon, Chudnovsky's, and Ramanu-jan formulas of Pi are investigating by Mathematica. We point out errors of two BBP-like formulas.

A rotating disk composed of alternating light and dark segments may give rise to the wagon wheel illusion: a perceptual reversal in rotation direction. Continuously illuminated (eg in daylight) as well as discretely presented (eg stroboscopic or computer-animated) versions of the illusion exist; here, we investigated the discrete version. Prominence of the illusion is commonly believed to depen...

This study reviews the practice of brake tests in freight railways, which is time consuming and not suitable to detect certain failure types. Public incident reports are analysed derive a reasonable test hardware communication architecture, aims provide automatic at lower cost than current solutions. The proposed solutions relies exclusively on pipe cylinder pressure sensors, release position s...

Once upon a time there was a robot, named R1 by its creators. Its only task was to fend for itself. One day its designers arranged for it to learn that its spare battery, its precious energy supply, was locked in a room with a time bomb set to go off soon. R1 located the room, and the key to the door, and formulated a plan to rescue its battery. There was a wagon in the room, and the battery wa...