Final Oreo Post
Part 1 and Part 2. There have been a couple of questions regarding the validity of my measuring process. The one that irked me the most was the fact that I had never measured the weight of the wafers of … Continue reading
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Oreo Verification
So things have gone a bit crazy lately. While on summer vacation, this happened: All for a blog post that I wrote in February. (My previous high for views in one day was 299.) In the original post where my … Continue reading
Break a Weighing Stone
From the weekly car talk puzzler: RAY: A farmer had a 40-pound stone which he could use to weigh 40 pounds of feed; he would sell feed in 40 pounds, or bales of hay, or whatever. He had a balance … Continue reading
Bouncing balls python simulation
Linked from the Visualizing Math blog, a cool simulation of bouncing balls with randomized gravity and bouncing coefficients. Forward Slash Reality Check out the video too.
Chaos Game
The chaos game, previously seen on Frank Noschese’s 180 blog and Jonathan Clayton’s blog Infinite Sums. I had to make this myself (deja vu?). Here’s what I made (processing 2.0): Check it out live. All these live links will probably … Continue reading
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Fractal Brownian Tree
@fawnpnguyen whoa. Need to try and make this. — Dan Anderson (@dandersod) June 4, 2013 I started off and used VPython to create the fractal, but it was slow and buggy. Here’s a movie of my first attempt. When you … Continue reading
Painting Puzzler – Car Talk
I never could remember how to solve these type of questions. RAY: Tommy, Dougie and I are sitting around the office one day at Car Talk Plaza. We were noticing how dingy the place looked. We’d been there 15 years, … Continue reading
Big Ice Cubes
Are big ice cubes worth it? Do they dilute your drink slower? Dr. Drang looks at the math behind it. ย This needs some more investigation. Also:ย sphere icecubes.
Microsoft Lies? Diagonal Screen Size vs Area
Microsoft has put up an ad comparing various Windows tablets to the iPad. So bigger is better right? On their original ad they claimed that the ASUS VivoTab Smart tablet had more area than the iPad. But Elliot Temple … Continue reading
Follow-up to 50 billion app downloads
Previous post. So 50 billion apps downloaded on the iTunes store has come and gone, and I have nothing to show for it (except for a bunch of fun learning and some excitement for the next time). Things that happened: … Continue reading