Monthly Archives: January 2012

Computing with decadic numbers

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Brent

[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 →

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Differences of powers of consecutive integers

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Brent

Patrick Vennebush of Math Jokes 4 Mathy Folks recently wrote about the following procedure that yields surprising results. Choose some positive integer . Now, starting with consecutive integers, raise each integer to the th power. Then take pairwise differences by … Continue reading →

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u-tube

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Brent

[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 →

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Herbert Wilf: 13 June 1931 – 7 January 2012

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Brent

I was sad to learn that Herbert Wilf died yesterday. Long-time readers of this blog may remember him as one of the discoverers of the Calkin-Wilf tree, which I wrote about in a ten-part series of posts (1, 2, 3, … Continue reading →

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A self-square number

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Brent

[This is the seventh 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 →

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