Posts tagged: math
Easy Conversion of Fractions to Decimals for DIY Projects.
By ChrisjobWhen adding fabric or wood or tile sizes with a calculator, all your carefully measured fractions turn into decimals, and unless you're a math whiz, it's really tough to get them back.
Here's a handy conversion chart from Wood Magazine that allows you to find either your fraction or decimal, and convert it back to where you're most comfortable.
Art a la the Rubik's Cube, and how to solve and build your own.
By ChrisjobApparently, solving a Rubik's Cube is either something you can do, or something you can't: you either know the tricks, or you don't. (I can't, and don't.)
Fortunately, these toysters know the tricks, and can manipulate the simply colored blocks into large scale works of art.
Mathematics and Knitting
By Tadiera
(Image found on Stash, Knit, Repeat while looking at examples of Fibonacci in knitting)
If you've done any amount of knitting (or crocheting), you know math is involved. Whether it's calculating your gauge, or so simple as counting your cast-on stitches (I go in multiples of 10- what about you?), you have to have at least a basic understanding of math.
However, some patterns take it beyond that. There's Panta, which requires you measure the circu » READ MORE
