That appears to work like a denial of service attack on my brain - I was sitting here quite hypnotized until a colleague asked me what on earth I was doing.
Obligatory http://xkcd.com/356/
Animated Factorisation Diagrams
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#72I was disappointed to see it end (at 10000). :(
I capped it at 10000 to prevent someone from accidentally leaving it on fast-forward and wedging their browser. Try this if you want to go farther: http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization...
Feature request: single step. The only way I can slow it down enough to explain it to my kids is to stop it, and it stops in random (usually mangled) states. I wish I could single step it.
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#733^n generates the Sierpinski gasket.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dare you to make a circle with 2 dots.
Actually, I can make any circle with 2 dots (points): From Wikipedia: A circle can be defined as the curve traced out by a point that moves so that its distance from a given point is constant.
not quite - you can't make a circle with diameter smaller than the distance between the two dots. and for any given radius, at most two circles (two centre positions) are possible.
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#75Re: Animated Factorisation Diagrams
#76I like it a lot. Would be nice if I could fill in my own number...