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Last Updated 27 January 2007
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After 21 years (Dec. 1985-Nov. 2006), the print magazine REC has been discontinued.   However, in response to requests, I now have a special of BACK ISSUES in electronic format (Word files)!

The last 14 years of REC, issues 53 (Spring 1993) through 127 (Fall 2006) inclusive, on CD:

ON CD: Any two years - $20 total/ Any three years - $28 total/
or take all 14 years for just  $75! FREE SHIPPING!

MAIL PAYMENT TO:

Dr. Michael W. Ecker, REC Editor
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Penn State Univ. W-B Campus
Lehman, PA 18627

or e-mail (click link) Dr. Mike Ecker for a faster postal address.

BUT WAIT! I also offer REC-on-Disk, the disk supplement of programs, graphics, text, shareware, BASIC & BASIC programs, and much more! And there are no "lost issues"! You get all 16 years (1990-2006), 58 MB of programs, nearly 6000 files!

REC-on-Disk collection alone, all 16 years, on CD: $69

SPECIAL: Save an extra $44.05!

Full 16 years of REC-on-Disk COLLECTION plus the
last 14 years of REC Issues, on one CD, FREE SHIPPING,
 not $75+$69=$144, but just $99.95!

MAIL PAYMENT TO:

Dr. Michael W. Ecker, REC Editor
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Penn State Univ. W-B Campus
Lehman, PA 18627

or e-mail (click link) Dr. Mike Ecker for a faster postal address.

INQUIRE ABOUT PAYMENT BY PAYPAL!

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I also will continue to add content, such as

(click -->) Stan Arlton's 33-digit mathemagic.

Back issues of REC on paper are available, albeit in limited supply. Most of the REC web pages here have been preserved for those interested in back issues, or who are merely curious.

Please e-mail me if interested.

"REC gets better and better. I never want to miss a single issue!"
Martin Gardner, world-famous recreational mathematics author

(What follows is my former REC promotional page)
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Want Mathemagical & Computer Recreations? Programming? Challenges? Graphics? Fun?

(*There's more, but you have to read it below!)

Did you know that there is a print publication devoted to the interplay of computer recreations & 'mathemagic'?

REC (Recreational & Educational Computing) has been published continuously since January 1986! Themes: "mathemagic", puzzles & teasers, programming (mostly QuickBASIC), math (most branches & levels), articles & letters, fractals & other graphics, challenges, recreation, reviews, word-play, humor, PC tips, solutions, and Mathemagical Black Holes (attractors). The main activity is fascinating challenges, often of a mathematical nature, in which computer assistance either solves the problem or sheds insight. For a larger article that captures some of this flavor, click on the article Mathemagical Black Holes.

REC is edited and published by Dr. Mike Ecker. Throughout the 1980s, Mike had his "Recreational Computing" columns in Popular Computing, Creative Computing, Byte, Algorithm, etc. You may have seen those or read his reviews in Computer Shopper, Government Computer News, PC Clones, and/ or other mags during this period.

REC is a newsletter/ magazine with programs, for which there's an optional PC disk supplemental to the magazine. All back issues of REC and/ or disks are available separately. Here are some typical activities from past years:

Mind-Blowing Paradoxes & Self-Referential Art

Art courtesy of mathematician-artist Dr. Nathaniel Hellerstein, (c) 1986

Benefits of Subscribing

Note: REC and Penn State University are unaffiliated, independent entities.

Paying by check? Please make checks payable to Recreational & Educational Computing, or Dr. Michael W. Ecker. Also specify that you are paying for REC at rate given above, and if adding REC-on-Disk-on-Line, add $18 and cite that, too.

Suggestion: Please also email me (REC Editor ) with your title, name, full address,  and e-mail address when you subscribe to be sure I get the information and so I look for your check/ mailing at my campus.  Thanks!

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REC Program Downloads including

FREE GAME Program, Tri-Game (image below)...