Recursive functions have been all over SNV this week! You have heard the cliche “correlation is not causation,” and it is true, even if overused. But WHY is it true? Don’t just give me examples, give me the foundation of the theory! Well, the problem is that the philosophy of when you can infer with…
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Statistics and probability are an area in which it is very difficult to find people who understand and apply the concepts correctly (another being logic). Studies depend on these calculations, but many people who conduct the studies don’t have the knowledge or experience with the theories to surmise the conclusions they wish to promote as…
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The Doomsday rule or Doomsday algorithm is a way of calculating the day of the week of a given date. It provides a perpetual calendar since the Gregorian calendar moves in cycles of 400 years. This algorithm for mental calculation was devised by John Conway after drawing inspiration from Lewis Carroll’s work on a perpetual…
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A list of ’em. Take a slow walk through the myriad here.
The Ulam spiral, or prime spiral (in other languages also called the Ulam Cloth) is a simple method of visualizing the prime numbers that reveals the apparent tendency of certain quadratic polynomials to generate unusually large numbers of primes. It was discovered by the mathematician Stanislaw Ulam in 1963, while he was doodling during the…
DetailsI have posted it before, but it is worth another round for those of us with thick skulls…