A Recursive Process

Scratch Coolness

September 11, 2013, 12:00 am

A student made this today (day 2 of scratch). Too cool. Keep watching.

Dodecahedron!

September 10, 2013, 12:00 am

A gift from a visiting college student (the pi memorizer)! Wow.

Did the NSA make a major math breakthrough?

September 9, 2013, 12:00 am

From The Daily Dot:

To date, there is no known shortcut to quickly factor large integers into primes. It has never been proven that no such shortcut exists. We’ve just never found one.

If the unfactorable nature of these large integers doesn’t interest you, consider that it has been the re...

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 solve.

For instance: What (polar) inequality crea...

Final Oreo Post

August 21, 2013, 12:00 am

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 the Double Stuf. Was it possible that the wafers for the Oreo and Double Stuf were different...

Oreo Verification

August 20, 2013, 12:00 am

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 class suggests that the Double Stuf Oreo is only 1.86x stuffed, the data set is small....

Break a Weighing Stone

July 23, 2013, 12:00 am

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 scale; he put the stone on one side and pile the other side with feed or hay, and when it balanced,...