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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Over on The Gauge Connection I was engaged in a lively discussion about the arrow of time with the blog owner, Marco Frasca. For some reason he decided to censor my latest comment, and notify me he will not publish anything else by me on his blog. Touchy, touchy.
Seeing as ...
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
I just finished working on a numerical simulation of a set of partial differential equations (PDE). I developed these equations for a physics research project I'm involved in. The equations did not seem to be solvable analytically, so I had to do it numerically. This was my first attempt at ...
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Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Here's a nice one. Show that, for any prime number p other than 2 and 5, there is a multiple of p that is written as a series of 1's in decimal representation. For example, 111 is a multiple of 3, and 11 is a multiple of itself. Hint: Use ...
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