- noted for his book of poems ‘Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror’. Here is the link to the Wikipedia article on him. keywords: poems, poetry, verse
Day: March 1, 2020
new sense of ‘homer’
- one who lives at home, that is, with his / her parents. This sense is not listed in the online Merriam-Webster dictionary, neither in the free abridged version nor in the pay-walled unabridged version. keywords: omission, lexicography
combinatorial proofs
Here is the link to the Wikipedia article on this topic. keywords: Mathematics, alternative proof, simpler proof, more elegant proof
Tupper’s self-referential formula
Here is the link to the Wikipedia article on this topic. keywords: appearance, graph, floor function, modulo function, less than
recursion
Recursion is when something is defined in terms of itself. Here is the link to the Wikipedia article on this topic. Note that if something is defined recursively, it may or may not be also expressible without recursion. The Wikipedia article implies, correctly, that the Fibonacci sequence, while defined recursively, can also be expressed without … Continue reading recursion
a list of some puzzles
Here is the link. keywords: plus magazine sharing cakes weighing balls magic 19 creating squares drips dropping eggs counter logic equal averages (and much more)
modulo operation
Here is the link to the Wikipedia article on this topic. keywords: computing, Mathematics, remainder
Tukey’s ninther
It is a ‘median of medians’. Here is the link to the Wikipedia article that contains an explanation of it. keywords: statistics, computational efficiency, estimation procedures for the median, robust estimator, limited recursion
Gallia est omnis divisa en partes tres…
This is the opening of the commentary by Julius Caesar. Here is the link to the commentary. keywords: Latin, war
wanted software feature
- a password-protected memo-document accessible directly from the screen-saver. keywords: cyberspace, IT, Information Technology, user-friendliness, user-friendly, quick notes