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Monday, July 29, 2013

Estimating area of irregular region

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Suppose you have an irregular region with continuous boundary like this: I found that you can estimate the area pretty well by finding po...
Monday, July 22, 2013

plotting differential equations with a recurrence relationship

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So imagine we have the differential equation: y = -dy_2 saying the y value is related to -1 times the second derivative. Suppose y, y1, a...
Saturday, July 20, 2013

find the next prime after a list of known primes

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Ok suppose you have a list of known primes like: {2,3,5,7} You'd like to know if the next odd number is prime: So assume you're l...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

new drawings

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Smooth curve generator implemented in python

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Given a list of ordered points as in the bottom of this image, my program produces the top part of the image: For more about the theory...
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Saturday, July 13, 2013

Constructing a smooth curve from a set of points geometrically

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Suppose you start with a set of points and you know the order they should be connected... The first step of this method is to construct a...
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Friday, June 28, 2013

Delta-characteristic of a graph

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Suppose you have a graph like the following: I am defining the Delta-characteristic to be, for each vertex set up a distance-like formula...
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