mike | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 25 2008 | math, girls, pre algebra, danica mckellar
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 08 2008 | equation, editor, Latex, mathThis is a great online equation editor. You enter a Latex string (with helper buttons to help you build the equation). Then you can download image to your web site. Amazing!
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - May 22 2008 | sudoku, math, group theory, puzzlesThere are only 5 billion essentially distinct Sudoku puzzles (solutions) (proof here using Group Theory and Burnside's Lemma).
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - May 11 2008 | sudoku, math, puzzles, programming
Interesting article on rating the difficulty of Sudoku's and various solving methods (including a short backtracking program written in Ruby).
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - May 10 2008 | math, puzzles
Really interesting problem in recreational mathematics - try to reverse a unit line segment via translations/rotations - but in doing so sweep out a minimal area.
PI/4 is the obvious minimum - but it turns out you can do so in an arbitrarily small area.
What's odd to me, is that any combinations of moves that are either a) rotations about the center and b) translations, CAN NOT achieve an area less than PI/4; so it's counter-intuitive that you can do better than that.
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 22 2007 | biology, math, statisticsShareViewed: 12 Times
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 05 2007 | computers, math, mathematica, excel, algorithms
Really insightful article about the difficulties of writing correct software - particularly in the realm of numerical calculation.
Also references an Excel 2007 calculation (display) error where the formula 850*77.1 is displayed as 100,000 (instead of 65,535)!
refaving darrellp
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 12 2007 | paper, model, mathShareViewed: 31 Times
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 10 2007 | math, tiling, penroseShareViewed: 6 Times





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