Road Sign Math

David Slauenwhite brings us this wintry sign from New Hampshire on a particularly foggy January day. This sign shares some very small type with Welcome to New Hampshire. In this sign it is more legible as “STATE PARK”.

Mr. Slauenwhite takes a moment from his usual complex math to bring us something that everyone [...]

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Gerald Thurman brings another mathematically significant roadsign, this one from a rather historic location. This sign is right on the east side of the historic Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge. It is a stunning covered bridge. There is some little type on the bottom of this sign. Under close scrutiny and with input from experts, [...]

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Randy Weiss brings another mathematically significant roadsign. This time from New Hampshire. The sign itself is rather unremarkable, and doesn’t seem to lead to anywhere particularly exciting. But it does have math!

This sign invokes the squaring function, but does it the long way.
(4 \times 4) + 1 = 17
This sign is on I-89 [...]

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Randy Weiss continues his string of new state introductions this time bringing New Hampshire’s first mathematically significant roadsign! The sign is a bit less than exciting, but it is still valid. It is curious that the sign was modified at some point to remove two positions, but what would they have been. It would be [...]

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