Archive for the “Math” category

A New Form of Cryptography

by Marshall on September 14, 2006

Today I found another really neat webcomic: xkcd.com. I for one am really excited about the new miss-elliot algorithm. Today‘s strip, Commented, took me a few seconds to get. (Hint: Just think of a C++ or C# IDE) Other comics (…)

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A Proof That the Rich do Little Work

by Marshall on April 16, 2006

You can’t argue with mathematics!

Solving Sudoku with SQL

by Marshall on March 30, 2006

I guess SQL can be used to solve all lifes problems. What is next, a Whitespace Sudoku solver?

Algorithms

by Marshall on February 2, 2006

Wikipedia has a rather large page with links to a ton of programming and math related algorithms. Thanks to this resource I now know of the Pancake Sort!

Math / Logic Puzzles

by Marshall on October 17, 2005

Slashdot is running a post on Logic and Math Puzzles.

Tessellation World

by Marshall on July 29, 2005

There are some pretty neat animated tessellations at this japanese site.

Pi Birthday

by Marshall on July 14, 2005

Does the integer representation of your birthdate show up in the number Pi? Mine shows up at position 441864. You can check out if any sequence of numbers shows up in the first 1.25 million digits of Pi here.