Math Set

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Set Size: 6 Buttons
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Designers: Nonce
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Button Men: Math Set is a set designed to illustrate mathematic concepts designed by Button Men Online user Nonce. The first set includes six buttons, each illustrating different aspects of mathematics.

The set's creator explained how the set came to be thusly:

Well, I know a lot about random fun things in math, so I looked for some math concepts that might make good buttons. First came the Venn-5 drawing and I thought I could make a button out of it.  Then I noticed the cage graphs had good numbers for dice.  Then I went through The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (oeis.org) and looked for nice sequences with good values for dice.

Math Set 1

Cage (6) (10) (14) (24) (30)	Descartes (5) (8) (8) (12) (12) r(20) r(20) r(21)	Difference (2) (3) (8) (10) (20) Skill attacks by or against Difference may have a modulus of 21 applied.
Looney (7) (11) (13) (17) (37)	Moroń (4) (8) (10) (14) (18) r(1) r(7) r(9) r(15)	Venn (see cell below)
		Venn BfHmoq%v(4) FgHq%tvz(6) FfHno%sz(8) ghmo%svz(10) r(12)

Design Notes

Cage is based on several pictures of unique famous cage graphs. The dice are the number of vertices of each cage.

Descartes is based on Apollonian Edge Circles, a thorough example of the concept which can be visually and mathematically seen here. The dice are all integer curvatures.

Difference is based on the Ganymede circle, a set of perfect measuring marks where the distances between selected red points are different and the distances are indicated by arcs inside the circle. The dice are all Maximal Konstants. Difference's special ability acts like a +Mk~[0](21) that cannot be denied and may allow a second Aux die from an opponent's die.

Looney is based on the asymmetrical planetary gearing system by M. Oskar van Deventer & Andreas Röver, and involves several gears intertwining in a functional pattern. The dice used are equal to the numbers of teeth on each gear. An illustration of it in action is available at https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/LooneyGears/

Moron is based on Dr.Zbigniew Moroń's squared rectangle.

Venn is based on a highly complex Venn diagram and may be one of the most skill-heavy button men ever designed. The dice sizes are based on the first five common polyhedral dice.

Math Set 2

Math Set 2 is currently in production.

Buckminster
(6, 10, 15, 31)

Fibonacci
(2, 3, 5, 8, 13, r21)

Heegner
(2, 4, 7, 11, 19)

Mandelbrot Orchard
(4, 5, 7, 22, 28)

Oblong
(2, 6, 12, 20, 30)

Narayana, the Cow Triangle
(r2, r3, 4, 6, 9, 13, 19, r28)

Pascal
(4, 6, 4, 10, 10, r20)

Platonic
(4, 6, 8, 12, 20)

Pythagorus
(3, 4, 5, 9, 16, r25)

Social Golfers
(4, 5, 5, 16, 20)

Taxicab
(1^3, 9^3, 10^3, 12^3)

Tetrahedral
(r1,4,10,20,35)

Triangular
(3, 6, 10, 15, 21)