What Is A Gold Cob?

Gold cobs are the original doubloons, the very treasure sought most by pirates. What is a cob coin? Cobs are the original “treasure coins.” Struck and trimmed by hand in the 16th through 18th centuries at Spanish mints in Mexico, Peru, and Colombia (among others), silver and gold cobs are Read more…

Why Are Corn Cobs Small?

The most common reasons corn is small is due to a lack of soil nutrients, watering problems, compacted soil, as well as pests, and lack of pollination. Armed with the right knowledge, you can create the right conditions for corn to flourish happily. Why does my corn have small ears? Read more…

What Does A Cobweb Plot Show?

A cobweb plot, or Verhulst diagram is a visual tool used in the dynamical systems field of mathematics to investigate the qualitative behaviour of one-dimensional iterated functions, such as the iterated functions. How do cobweb diagrams work? The cobweb diagram will show whether the (non-zero, if there is one) fixed Read more…