Posted in Nonsense on January 12th, 2006 1 Comment »
I was wrong. In class this morning, I seemed have fabricated a memory. I could have sworn that somewhere in either reading or my many math classes over the years that I was taught the name of the components of a subtraction problem. We most all still remember the names of the [...]
Posted in Math is Everywhere, Mathematics on January 12th, 2006 1 Comment »
I heard someone mention the fact that this Friday is the 13th and it reminded me of a blog entry I was intending to post. It was a little puzzle provided and answered by Eon.
What is the most number of Friday the 13th’s that a single year may have?
Clearly, its less than [...]
Posted in Math is Everywhere, Mathematics on January 12th, 2006 3 Comments »
It hasn’t been since I was taking Computer Science courses during my Master’s work that I had the chance to really look at sorting algorithms. But I’ve always just fascinated by them. There are some really creative ways to take a list of numbers (usually a very long list) and put all [...]