Tagged "Mathematics"
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Search as a Polynomial
3732 words, about 18 minutes to read.
I read a really neat paper some time ago, and I’ve been wanting to write about it ever since. The paper is called Algebras for Weighted Search, and it is a tad too deep to dive into in a blog article – readers of ICFP are rarely the target audience on this site. . . .
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Digit Sum Patterns and Modular Arithmetic
6086 words, about 29 minutes to read.
When I was in elementary school, our class was briefly visited by our school’s headmaster. He was there for a demonstration, probably intended to get us to practice our multiplication tables. . . .