I think everyone knows what an ellipse is. It’s an elongated, squished circle that looks kind of like an egg. In mathematical terms, it’s considered a conic section. That means you can slice through a cone and trace an ellipse,
First things first: Yes, that’s a Linkin Park lyric. I’m not proud of it but there aren’t enough pop-culture pendulum references. I think most people understand what a pendulum is. It’s when you have a heavy thing that swings on
Netflix premiered a new sci-fi show this year, 3 Body Problem, which brought attention to a whole host of nerdy Wikipedia articles. [No spoilers!] One of those topics was the three-body problem. The TL;DR version is that if you have