Holger Seifert | 8. September 2022
Crack the Code Cryptography deals with the encryption and decryption of messages. The central question here is: which procedure is safe, which is not? Here, too, a message was encrypted. Can you crack the encryption? The computer will help you. More information Advanced text
Holger Seifert | 8. September 2022
My Birthday in Pi [latexpage] This exhibit once again focuses on the famous constant $\pi$: Does every sequence of digits occur in the decimal places of $\pi$? That is a known open problem. Here you can check your date of birth: Enter the six digits of your birthday into the computer programme. The computer calculates ... My Birthday in Pi
Holger Seifert | 8. September 2022
Musical Dice Game In this exhibit, chance and music are combined. It is based on an idea by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Given is a stock of already composed bars. By rolling the dice, you can now determine which of these bars and in which order they should be played one after the other. In this ... Musical Dice Game
Holger Seifert | 8. September 2022
How tall am I? In probability theory, one deals with the distribution of random variables: How large a proportion of the collected data points lies in a certain interval? In this exhibit, the distribution of body size as a function of age is shown: What is the average height of a person of a certain ... How tall am I?
Holger Seifert | 8. September 2022
Golden Ratio The golden ratio is a famous ratio that is considered particularly aesthetic. It plays a major role in both nature and art. It occurs, among other things, as the ratio of belly button height and body height. You can check this on yourself with this exhibit. More information Advanced text
Holger Seifert | 8. September 2022
Snail King Snails belong to the rare animal species that do not have a nearly mirror-symmetrical structure: The house of a Roman snail is almost always right-angled. Snails with reversed coiling direction, so-called snail kings, are extremely rare. The probability that a randomly chosen house is left-wound is less than 1:40,000.
Holger Seifert | 8. September 2022
Benford's Law In 1881, the astronomer Simon Newcomb discovered that in his logarithmic tables the first pages were more worn out than the last. From this he concluded that the digit 1 occurs far more frequently in naturally occurring data than do the other digits. In 1938, the physicist Frank Benford discovered the same law, ... Benford’s Law
