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Greenspun's tenth rule strikes again! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

Hi, yes, it's open source. My web site's github repo is at https://github.com/duetosymmetry/web-site/tree/customization . The JS for controlling the web toy is at https://github.co…

I wanted to keep the UI from getting too busy, which is why I limited the degree to 7. But if somebody really wants to play with higher-degree polynomials, I'm not going to stop th…

I was just pondering about this. I imagine that moving a coefficient a small amount (and so long as the roots are not too close) that Newton-Raphson, initialized with a previously-…

That's the one in our galaxy, and the other target—in the galaxy M87—is around 5 billion times the mass of the sun!

I believe every radio telescope has their own reference clock that lives at the site. The EHT team is not responsible for schlepping these clocks around. There are other reasons be…

> fixed-length binary strings are a group where the operation is xor (or '^') and inv(x) = x Most people would call this group (Z/2Z)^n, i.e. n copies of Z/2Z under addition. Simil…