The Ben Paul Thurston Blog

Here's an algorithm for testing the primality of a number that should be fast on a computer because it uses all operations that are easy...

This post is about using an algorithm designed to mimic natural selection to find the formula for an unknown polynomial. I started with a r...

I made this new scale that I feel combines the best of the two dominant scales that exist today. On the one hand I made every note the same ...

Heron's formula is a formula from antiquity relating the area of a triangle to the lengths of it's 3 sides. It's a nice formula ...

I thought if you start off with some kind of general convex region and all you know is the lengths of the segments around the outside and th...

Ok, Fermat's Little Theorem states that the formula A^n=B^n+C^n can only be true with whole numbers for n less than or equal to 2. It wa...

  I was thinking maybe millions of years ago there was a monkey-like creature born to a species of tree dwelling monkey-like creatures that ...