The Ben Paul Thurston Blog

I noticed Western Music's 12 note scale in black is pretty close to a 16 note scale shifted off of a power of 2 about 5 hz left or right...

I noticed that if you make an archimedean spiral in polar coordinates starting at the origin that goes to [1,0] at theta = 2*pi, you can sol...

As an example here is the "Thresher" sorting network for n=4 or 16 inputs, it has 99 comparators and 15 depth... The pattern m...

This is a sorting network of 67 comparators and 10 depth, but with the obvious symmetry it suggests that there might be designs that can be ...

The code listed below finds sorting networks as described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_network The sorting network it found...

My idea was considering you have a list L of N items, and a list of primes P1...Q including 1, listed in reverse order like so: Here Q is ...

I found a curve that smoothly piece-wise interpolates a set of  a waves values along the integers and proved something interesting about it....