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Heck, there are some quite interesting subsets of $$\Bbb N$$ that are closed under multiplication. Consider for example { 54, 64, 81, 96, 144, 216, 256, 324, 384, 486, 576, 729, 864, 1024, 196, 1536, 1944, 2304, 2916, 3456, 4096, 4374, 5184, 6144, 6561, 7776, 9216, 11664, 13824, 16384, 17496, 20736, 24576, 26244, 31104, 36864, 39366, 46656, 55296, 59049, 65536, 69984, 82944, 98304, … }.
That's the set of all integers that are (a) $$2^i3^j$$, (b) $$5k\pm1$$, and (c) at least $$54$$.

Consider the family F that contains the subsets of $$\Bbb Q$$ that are closed under multiplication. Some elements of F are well-known ($$\varnothing$$, $$\Bbb Q$$ itself; others less so. (Consider the set of rational numbers with denominators of the form $$5k \pm 1$$] or the set with denominators $$2^i3^j$$ .)

$$F \setminus\{\varnothing\}$$ has a very interesting lattice structure.

Mathematically disappointing

Color-blind readers: I would appreciate your feedback on the diagrams in blog.plover.com/math/gcm.html . Please reply here or by email to mjd@pobox.com . Thanks.

New math post on my blog: The least common divisor and the greatest common multiple blog.plover.com/math/gcm.html

Dividing a chocolate bar into any proportions: mathoverflow.net/questions/338

The bar has L squares, and you want to give each of m people an integer number of squares, but the integers are not known in advance. How to break the bar into few pieces so this will always be possible?

Reid Hardison asked this months ago but Ilya Bogdanov answered with an efficient construction of the optimal partition much more recently.

Quasiperiodic bobbin lace patterns: arxiv.org/abs/1910.07935, Veronika Irvine, Therese Biedl, and Craig S. Kaplan, via twitter.com/bit_player/status/ — aperiodic tilings in fiber arts.

The attached image is a photo of lace (not an illustration), braided into an Ammann–Beenker tiling pattern.

New math post on my blog: More fair cake-cutting blog.plover.com/math/cake-2.ht

New math post on my blog: Incenters of chocolate-iced cakes blog.plover.com/math/cake.html

New math post on my blog: Breaking pills blog.plover.com/math/breaking-

I decided that the world needed to see the Maclaurin series thrashing like a screen door in a hurricane.

New math post on my blog: Convergence of Taylor series blog.plover.com/math/exponenti

Wikipedia has this animation of the Maclaurin series converging for e^x, but it emphasizes the right-hand side, where the behavior is much less bizarre, and only hints at the left-hand side where the partial sums flap back and forth like a screen door in a hurricane.

New math post on my blog: The exponential function is a miracle blog.plover.com/math/exponenti

New math post on my blog: Technical devices for reducing the number of axioms blog.plover.com/math/technical

New math post on my blog: Obtuse axiomatization of category theory blog.plover.com/math/freyd-the

New math post on my blog: Projection morphisms are (not) epic blog.plover.com/math/epic-proj

New math post on my blog: The inside-outness of category theory blog.plover.com/math/category-

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