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Category Archives: programming
Stars of the Mind’s Sky with Diagrams
A few weeks ago, Paul Salomon posted a really beautiful work of mathematical art on his blog, Lost In Recursion: Stars of the Mind’s Sky, by Paul Salomon He included a precise mathematical description of the image, and I naturally … Continue reading
Posted in geometry, group theory, pictures, programming
Tagged art, diagrams, Haskell, polygon, star, visualization
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Diagrams!
Over the past few years I’ve written quite a few posts with images generated by a library I (now along with many others) wrote. Most famously, this is how I created those factorization diagrams. But I’ve used it in many … Continue reading
What I Do, Part I: Programming languages (Up-Goer 5 edition)
“Splasho” has has created an online text editor which checks to make sure you use only the 1000 most common English words, inspired by this recent XKCD comic. Over the past few weeks, many scientists have taken up the challenge … Continue reading
What I Do, Part 1: Programming languages
[This is the second in an occasional series of posts explaining what I do in my “day job” as a computer science PhD student. The idea is to write a series of posts of increasing specificity, but all aimed at … Continue reading
A computer-checked proof of the odd order theorem
Big news: a proof of the Feit-Thompson Theorem (also known as the “odd order theorem”) has been completely formalized and verified by a computer, using the Coq proof assistant! Wait, what? Huh? you’re probably thinking. Well, let me unpack that … Continue reading
More factorization diagrams
My post on factorization diagrams from a month ago turned out to be (unexpectedly) quite popular! I got ten times as many hits as usual the day it was published, and since then quite a few other people have created … Continue reading
Posted in arithmetic, links, pictures, primes, programming, recursion
Tagged diagrams, factorization, Haskell
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Factorization diagrams
In an idle moment a while ago I wrote a program to generate "factorization diagrams". Here’s 700: It’s easy to see (I hope), just by looking at the arrangement of dots, that there are in total. Here’s how I did … Continue reading
Posted in arithmetic, pictures, primes, programming, recursion
Tagged diagrams, factorization, Haskell
72 Comments
Blockly
It seems that Google is developing a graphical programming language called Blockly, inspired by Scratch but web-based, with the ability to compile down to JavaScript, Dart, or Python (or raw XML, so you can process it further). I can’t say … Continue reading
Computing with decadic numbers
[This is the ninth, and, I think, final in a series of posts on the decadic numbers (previous posts: A curiosity, An invitation to a funny number system, What does "close to" mean?, The decadic metric, Infinite decadic numbers, More … Continue reading
u-tube
[This is the eighth in a series of posts on the decadic numbers (previous posts: A curiosity, An invitation to a funny number system, What does "close to" mean?, The decadic metric, Infinite decadic numbers, More fun with infinite decadic … Continue reading
Posted in computation, convergence, infinity, iteration, modular arithmetic, number theory, programming
Tagged decadic, Haskell, idempotent, streaming, u
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