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Dr. Albert Bartlett: Arithmetic, Population and Energy | Global Public Media edit / delete
On the inability of people to understand the exponential function, and why this is a really bad thing. I like the log2 rule of thumb he gives: if something is growing at N% per year, it will double every 70/N years.
Some fun maths programming problems.
to amusements maths programming ... on 22 August 2008
Mike Keith's Home Page edit / delete
Various nifty forms of constrained writing, including the rather splendid "Cadaeic Cadenza".
to amusements constrained literary maths oulipo ... on 08 June 2008
Simple Gauss-Jordan elimination in Python edit / delete
Better than my rref.py.
Cornell Library Historical Mathematics Monographs edit / delete
"The Cornell University Library Historical Mathematics Monographs is a collection of selected monographs with expired copyrights chosen from the mathematics field."
Prof. W. Kahan's web pages edit / delete
Includes a variety of splendid publications on floating-point maths and how it's implemented. Worth referring to for occam-pi's maths implementation.
to compiler floating-point maths papers research ... on 13 December 2007
The Old Calculators Web Museum edit / delete
Includes lots of detail about how early EM and electronic calculators worked -- for example, the algorithms they used to do intrinsic functions efficiently. Might be worth looking at for small maths libraries.
to maths mechanica retrocomputing retrotech ... on 01 August 2007
What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic edit / delete
Extremely handy guide to how floating-point arithmetic works. Well worth reading if you're implementing FP stuff.
In a Dither - page 1 edit / delete
An excellent introduction to dithering in digital audio.
to audio maths signal-processing software ... on 07 November 2006
Paul Hsieh's Square Root page edit / delete
How to calculate square roots quickly. (There's other interesting stuff on the site too, although it's a pain to navigate.)
to maths optimisation programming ... on 22 October 2006
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tasty by Adam Sampson.