I have not worked a Euler Project problem in some time. Here’s problem 183: Let N be a positive integer and let N be split into k equal parts, r = N/k, so that N = r + r + … + r. Let P be the product of these parts, P = r × [...]
Archives for February 2008
test of jsmath
I am testing the jsMath package. Here’s how the authors describe it. The jsMath package provides a method of including mathematics in HTML pages that works across multiple browsers under Windows, Macintosh OS X, Linux and other flavors of unix. It overcomes a number of the shortcomings of the traditional method of using images to [...]
The elegance of Haskell
A couple of years ago I spent some time playing with Haskell. Not enough to get good with it, but enough to get an idea what it is about. After I satisfied my curiosity, I let it drop because I saw no real opportunity to use the language in earnest. The hardest thing about Haskell [...]
mac pro memory
We’ve been moving to the Mac Pro as our standard development box where I work. … We’ve been buying from Crucial, but today I was reading a review of the new Mac Pro’s in Ars Technica, and they mentioned an outfit called Other World Computing .
ejabberd
I’m interested in learning a bit about the Jabber/XMPP protocol. There’s only one way I know to do so, and that is to mess with it. So I decided to install a Jabber server, ejabberd. Installing ejabberd on Ubuntu is easy, but I hit an immediate roadblock: ejabberd has a web-based administrative interface, but following [...]
math resources
In my fantasy life, the one where I have some spare time and am not bleary from lack of sleep, I imagine myself studying math. Really. Here’s a nice list of free online math books.
recursion in erlang
Some months ago Kevin (check him out at Hypothetical Labs) started the RDU erlounge, a monthly meeting of area erlang enthusiasts. The meetings were organized via a mailing list. Recently one of the guys on the list, Jared (Alloy Code), asked for a bit of help. He was working an exercise (a function to compute [...]
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