The Ben Paul Thurston Blog

Suppose you start with 13. Then if the number you have is smaller than 16 double it, if it is larger than 16 divide it by 3. If it gets to e...

Made this doggy in Gimp.

I noticed experimentally that if you pick a random series of consecutive floating point numbers between 0 and 1 and stop when you've exc...

I made this graphic by looking at the primes smaller than 550,000. What I did was start at the center and with the number 7; I went left, up...

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 ...