cycling through a number range

11.03.2009 - 21:36 UTC

What I really wanted to do was to play a round of quakelive. But right now, quakelive is down (well, it's Beta, isn't it?). Quakelive pointed me to their twitter feed . Next I wondered wha...read more

Road to Reality - Continued Fractions

03.06.2007 - 17:34 UTC

Saturday my new book arrived - The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose . This is a much appraised book. The saying goes that it is somewhat too complex to be understood by the minds that, let's say, ...read more

When to jump into the water - with maths

17.05.2007 - 20:32 UTC

I once heard that with the following problem dogs had less of an issue than many distinguished people of the human race. Consider the following: There is an object in the water at some distance fro...read more

Haunted by PI - changing a number's base in Haskell

15.05.2007 - 21:15 UTC

I was looking back at Christoph's ruby code and was thinking that by now I should be able to implement that algorithm in Haskell. Indeed, one of my solutions looks like that: out x | x >=...read more

PI Revisited - again!

11.04.2007 - 20:11 UTC

What Andre's link caused ... One idea that came up from a former colleague of mine, Christoph was to rebase the number PI to 27, allowing for a presentation in the form of letters of the alphabet...read more
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