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Entries Tagged as 'Math'

A New Form of Cryptography

September 14th, 2006 · No Comments

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 I visit regularly:

Penny Arcade
Dinosaur Comics
Homestar Runner

What, if anything, do you all read?

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Tags: Humor · Math · Programming

A Proof That the Rich do Little Work

April 16th, 2006 · No Comments

You can’t argue with mathematics!

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Tags: Math

Solving Sudoku with SQL

March 30th, 2006 · No Comments

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

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Tags: Math · Programming

Algorithms

February 2nd, 2006 · No Comments

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!

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Tags: Math · Programming

Math / Logic Puzzles

October 17th, 2005 · No Comments

Slashdot is running a post on Logic and Math Puzzles.

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Tags: Math

Tessellation World

July 29th, 2005 · No Comments

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

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Tags: Math

Pi Birthday

July 14th, 2005 · No Comments

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.

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Tags: Math