Tag Archives: metric

The decadic metric

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Brent

Continuing my series of posts exploring the decadic numbers… in my previous post, I explained that we will define a new “size function”, or metric, different from the usual “absolute value”, and written . Two numbers will be “close to” … Continue reading →

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Carnival of Mathematics and other links

Posted on January 18, 2009 by Brent

The 47th Carnival of Mathematics has been put together by jd2718; go give it a read! Some of my favorite posts include factoring by puzzles, teaching binary numbers, the 2009 game, cliques of dichotomies, but there is lots of other … Continue reading →

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