Monthly Archives: March 2018

Efficiently listing orthobraces

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Brent

In my last couple posts, we talked about a simple yet inefficient method for listing all orthobraces of a particular size. So how do we generate them efficiently? It turns out that it can be done: in 2011, Karim, Sawada, … Continue reading →

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Haskell code to naively list orthobraces

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Brent

Let’s see some simple Haskell code to generate orthobraces, by generating all sequences and throwing away ones we’ve already generated. First, some library imports we’ll need. > import Data.List > import qualified Data.Set as S Here’s a function to generate … Continue reading →

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Listing orthobraces

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Brent

I took a bit of a break to finish writing a paper for submission to the International Conference on Functional Programming—which I should write about here! All in good time. (I tend to accumulate things to write about faster than … Continue reading →

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Book review: An Illustrated Theory of Numbers

Posted on March 11, 2018 by Brent

[Disclosure of Material Connection: The AMS kindly provided me with a free review copy of this book. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions expressed are my own.] An Illustrated Theory of Numbers Martin H. Weissman … Continue reading →

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