The Ben Paul Thurston Blog

I had this idea as a way to generate some AC electricity. Basically as a flag ripples in the wind it is connected to a framework of springs ...

I never knew if this was possible or not but apparently so. I started with considering an infinite square wave only 0 every say, 3rd number ...

Theorem: A series of integers is generated by a polynomial P(x) with integer coefficients if for every choice of x: m mod P(x) = m mod P(x+...

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...