Mandelbrot Fractal
I was inspired by a My Favorite presentation from a student on the Mandelbrot fractal. I played around for a half hour at school without a ton of success, but I sorted out the sticking points on the way home, … Continue reading
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Chaos Game v2
I prepared a small demonstration of the Chaos gameย for some math teachers. First we used transparencies, markers, dice, and rulers, but humans are mistake-prone and slow. To The Computer! I decided to experiment with the rules of the game to … Continue reading
Buffon’s Needles simulation in Processing
Buffon’s Needle is a famous way to (slowly) estimate . Here’s a processing.org program to calculate (to keep the math-hipster hatred of -day at a critical point and concave up). Link to live simulation and code. All variables are easy to … Continue reading
Two James Tanton Questions
It’s midterm week at school, and James Tanton threw out two interesting questions in two days. I spent a little time programming “solutions” to these problems (not solutions, just verifications for an infinitesimally small portion of the natural numbers). Problem … Continue reading
Pebbling a Checkerboard Game (Or Chessboard)
I happened upon this tweet when I got to work this morning: Freeing imprisoned clones: finally a use for geometric series that isn't about computing interest http://t.co/FpJWxO73xI @numberphile #math — Matt Caicco (@MatthewJCaicco) December 20, 2013 So I watched the … Continue reading
Daily Desmos: Call for Action
Surprisingly (to me) I haven’t talked about the Daily Desmos project on this internetsblog. Daily Desmos is a project that I’ve been involved with since March. It has daily graphing challenges that you can use the desmos graphing utility to … Continue reading
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
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
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
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