For todays post I'm going to go in a bit of a different direction than I normally do. After watching a pretty interesting video (in my humble opinion, anyway) on Pascals Triangle, I found myself surfing through wikipedia (as one does) and ultimately ar
As Hanukkah approached and I gathered my holiday supplies, I ran through my list to make sure I had everything I needed. Latkes? Check. Chcoclate Gelt? Double check. Menorah? Check. Candles? Check.... I think? How many am i going to need? Now, I could
Like many other software engineers out there, I love XKCD so whenever Randall publishes a comic with something computationally interesting I like to take a stab at it. Friday's comic
Rounding Numbers
Rounding numbers is rudimentary math, often times we do it in our head without even realizing we've done it.
The Collatz Conjecture
The Collatz conjecture is an interesting "open" math problem regarding sequence generation. First proposed in 1937, the conjecture states that if you start with any positive integer(n), and if its