Tag Archives: Haskell

A few words about PWW #33: subset permutations

Posted on August 20, 2021 by Brent

My previous post showed four rows of diagrams, where the th row (counting from zero) has diagrams with dots. The diagrams in the th row depict all possible paths that start at the top left dot, end at the top … 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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Stars of the Mind’s Sky with Diagrams

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Brent

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 →

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Diagrams!

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Brent

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 →

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More factorization diagrams

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Brent

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 →

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Factorization diagrams

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Brent

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 →

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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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Learn You a Haskell!

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Brent

I have written several times before about using the Haskell programming language as a tool for exploring mathematics, but until now I had no good recommendation for people who were interested in learning it for that purpose (Real World Haskell … Continue reading →

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Prime Time in Haskell

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Brent

In a recent blog post, Patrick Vennebush of Math Jokes 4 Mathy Folks noted that 2011 can be expressed as a sum of consecutive prime numbers, and challenged his readers to work out how. He also posed a couple further … Continue reading →

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m-bracelets code

Posted on November 27, 2009 by Brent

[15 January 2013: updated code to work with the latest versions of fgl and graphviz. Thanks to Conal Elliott for the updates!] By popular demand, here is the Haskell code I used to generate the images in my previous post. … Continue reading →

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