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Friday, April 26, 2013

Clothboard

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I made this material in the picture out of dryer lint and Elmer's white glue.   It took it about a week to dry completely but once it...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Payouts in a tournament paying a certain number of places

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Suppose you have a tournament and you have a certain amount of money pooled together and you want to pay a certain number of places. I found...
Sunday, April 7, 2013

Recursive metaprogramming

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I was thinking if you have an interpreter that takes a program listing like this: a(b(c,d,e), f("foo.txt", "sample.png"...

Parallelizing through a meta programming language

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The big issue in computing today is how to write programs so the things that can happen in parralel are executed at the same time and solvin...
Thursday, April 4, 2013

Easy way to factor a number or tell whether it's prime

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If T is the number you want to factor or know whether it is prime you can repeat this process recursively down until every factor is prime. ...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Calculating the tail of the Zeta function

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The well known Zeta function is this: I found this function: as A get's larger this function get's closer and closer to ...

A faster approximation of e

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Of course there's this approximation of e: But the 5 has to be a large number to get very close to e, this next one is faster: ...
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