What's the smallest name? Can you beat Millicent?

@christianp OK, but your name is now "C. Lawper".

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I'm trying to free up disk space on mathstodon.xyz, so we don't keep running out. Currently we have 30GB of user avatars and headers, and about 30GB of remote media.
The remote media is all from the last 7 days. I just did tootctl media remove --days 2 and cleared 6GB.

Why is so much remote media being copied locally? Is there an option to not make local copies?

New entry!
Fractal Sequences
Web page by Clark Kimberling
In collections: Easily explained, Fun maths facts, Integerology, Puzzles
Fractal sequences have in common with the more familiar geometric fractals the property of self-containment. An example of a fractal sequence is 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 4, 1, 5, 3, 6, 2, 7, 4, 8, 1, 9, 5, 10, 3, 11, 6, 12, 2, 13, 7,...
URL: faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/int

Fun fact: each book scanned for the Internet Archive has a unique identifier, usually the title of the item, or its first 16 characters; the volume number, or 00 if there isn't one; and the first 4 characters of the author. So:

@esoterica Rafael Ball speculates the main reason for the increasing percentage of titles with a question mark is marketing & sees the increase as a sign for increased publication pressure.

Could we use this to monitor our success in fighting publish-or-perish?

@christianp there's a hyperbolic quilt pattern, based on the hyperbolic soccerball tiling. You can glue or tape paper together to visualize spaces of negative curvature, though knitting or crocheting works much better. I designed a construction set toy originally to illustrate spaces of negative curvature.

thingiverse.com/thing:2491050

Identify the error correcting code. These cards came with my daughter's new toy

@christianp "To get started, go to your local arts and crafts store and pick out a few brightly-colored sheets of Poincaré half-plane."

The word 'hyperboligami' popped into my head this morning and now I need to make it happen

@dudeney_puzzles this one's doing my nugget in

167. THE WIZARD'S CATS. A wizard placed ten cats inside a magic circle as shown in our illustration, and hypnotized them so that they should remain stationary during his pleasure. He then proposed to draw three circles inside the large one, so that no cat could approach another cat without crossing a magic circle. Try to draw the three circles so that every cat has its own enclosure and cannot reach another cat without crossing a line.

Reading this fantastic graphic novel called "Prime Suspects". It's all about analytic number theory in metaphors.

It has amazing one-liners like:

mathstodon.xyz is now running Mastodon v2.9.2!
The big new feature this time is the single-column layout, which looks more like standard Twitter. It's the default layout for new users. Existing users can switch to it on the preferences page.
Full release notes: github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/

that went unexpectedly smoothly! The asset compilation step was loads quicker, too.
This makes me suspicious

mathstodon.xyz might go up and down a bit while I try to upgrade. The server needs a distribution upgrade, so it's going to be fiddly

A Mastodon instance for maths people. The kind of people who make $\pi z^2 \times a$ jokes.
Use $ and $ for inline LaTeX, and $ and $ for display mode.