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Posts Tagged ‘math’

Project Euler Problem #16

/twitch Anything to avoid using VS, right? For my pain, I learned that Bash, while being excellent for fast big arithmetic operations (compared to C#), doesn’t enjoy working with large multiples or exponents. using System; using System.Numerics; class Program { static void Main() { BigInteger a; string b; int c = 0; a = BigInteger.Pow(2, [...]

The dimensions of a Heighliner

(Warning, contains mathematics!) The Heighliner is Dune is (to me) one of the more iconic starships in science fiction, as as such I want to feature it in my next drawing. A couple of variations exist: In Dune and its sequels, the Heighliner wasn’t described at all. It was, I think, just a cool-sounding plot [...]

Maths: 20% done.

I got about halfway through the paper before the time ran out. I didn’t make a complete shite of matters, but I already know that I am way behind on the class on topics such as factorization and quadratic equations.

√√TF?

The first around that I did this level of math (secondary school), I didn’t learn a damn thing. Ann Lucy is one of the sweetest women imaginable, but she was completely incapable of managing a class of eighteen teenagers who weren’t particularly inclined toward learning. Even on the days when I did tune in, and [...]

Stupid plotholes

If this tumblelog had categories, I’d file this under Verbal Diarrhoea. Big dumb logical and scientific plotholes in a film, television series or book insanely bug the crap out of me. When something happens for the sake of drama, rather than some even quasi-plausible reason, it feels like the author/writer/producer is saying, “well ain’t you [...]