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We are looking for all triangles (with the exception of similarity) in which the tangent values ​​of the interior angles are all integers.

In Peter Winkler's book "Mathematical Mind-Benders" the now famous problem of dividing an ice cream cake is posed. It asks: If, when cutting the circular cake with any central angle (whether rational or irrational), neighboring piece after neighboring piece is constantly cut off, the cake segment is rotated to the previous top side, and the cut surface is considered to be healed, then after a finite number of cuts the top side is back where it was at the beginning. I also fell for it at first and assumed that according to Weyl's theorem (uniform distribution modulo 1) this is not possible and therefore the central angle must be rational. I have since found a solution according to which the cutting process must stop after a finite number of steps. Weyl's theorem is obviously not applicable here. Why - I am still puzzling over that.

Now I am interested in whether Maple can be used to animate the uniform distribution modulo 1 on the unit circle and to display the associated statistics in the sense of a sample and calculate the sample value of the uniform distribution. As a Maple beginner, I am not yet able to do this and am asking for help.

A street of finite length has many houses on one side, which are numbered in consecutive order with 1, 2, 3, 4, ... Determine all house numbers where the sum of all house numbers before this house number is equal to the sum of all house numbers after it.

That's enough for this year.
I wish everyone a happy new year 2025.

Given 4 hummingbirds, each located at the vertex of a unit tetrahedron.
The birds begin to fly in such a way that all birds fly at the same speed and:
(1) Bird #1 always flies directly toward bird #2
(2) Bird #2 always flies directly toward bird #3
(3) Bird #3 always flies directly toward bird #4
(4) Bird #4 always flies directly toward bird #1
As one can imagine, the flying birds eventually meet and collide. (Assume the birds are very small.)

What is needed is the distance to the collision point of the hummingbirds.

As a Maple beginner, I am now interested in symbolic calculations in Maple. As before, I set a problem from a subject area that interests me in order to learn from professional answers.

Determine all regular square (n;n) matrices (determinant not equal to zero) that are commutable with every regular (n;n) matrix with respect to matrix multiplication.

(I know the solution from long ago.)

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