1.3.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

1.3.2.1 Generating visually pleasing circle packs

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/40334/generating-visually-pleasing-circle-packs

 
EDIT: I want to thank you all guys for this unexpected intellectual and 
artistic journey. Hope you enjoyed as I did. 
 
I would like to generate a circle pack that mimics this: (don't pay 
attention on  ...
 

- asked by VividD (62 votes), answered by level1807 (39 votes)

1.3.2.2 Finding real roots of negative numbers (for example, $\sqrt[3] -8 $)

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/3886/finding-real-roots-of-negative-numbers-for-example-sqrt3-8

 
Say I want to quickly calculate $\sqrt[3]{-8}$, to which the most 
obvious solution is $-2$. 
 
When I input $\sqrt[3]{-8}$ or Power[-8, 3^-1], Mathematica gives the 
result "$2 (-1)^{1/3}$". Not what I  ...
 

- asked by jtbandes (33 votes), answered by Brett Champion (13 votes)