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I understand that Professor Yaffle -- the woodpecker bookend in the classic kids' TV show Bagpuss -- was loosely based on Russell.

After reading Tim Dellinger's article[^0] on performance, I wondered what distribution the firing system he alludes to would lead to. TL;DR: under some not-too-outlandish assumptio…

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SEEKING WORK - Dorset, UK, remote - mathematician Hi! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician. I love solving problems and communicating the solutions. Looking for short- to medi…

For 13ths, multiply your base number by 77, subtract 1, and concatenate the number that makes it up to 999. So, for 4/13: * multiply 4 by 77 to get 308 * subtract 1 to get 307 * co…

A trick I learned -- I think from Colin Wright -- involves powers of 2. * Write the powers of 2 up to 2^10 in lex order and pop a decimal point after the first digit of each: * 1.2…

For example: > Oi oi, fallible developer! I, idiot programming enthusiast, frequent Hacker News, mixed subject extravaganza, do you? No way! This uses each Scrabble tile once (with…

If you're interested in pangrams, you might like Dave's Scrabblegrams: https://twitter.com/dc_scrabblegram Use each tile from a standard Scrabble set once to make a meaningful sent…

Nice. I like ln(3) and ln(5) (1.1 and 1.6) as well.

For the square root, I get 140.3. My heuristic is to find a nearby square (here, 140^2 = 19600) and divide the discrepancy (83) by double the root of the nearby square (280). This …

I did it similarly: log(19,683) is about 4.3, so ln(19,683) is about 4.3 * 2.3, which is about 9.9. That jumps out as close to 9ln(3). So the natural log of the cube root is (presu…

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Here's a nice way to play with the parameters: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/3wrid37iir

There's a nice demonstration of a zero-knowledge protocol here: http://aperiodical.com/2012/03/using-a-zero-knowledge-protoc...

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