Oh great! He's mucking around with that damn computer again!
Various topics in Mathematics
Some times it’s necessary to calculate a series, be it a summation or integral that has infinity as one it’s boundaries. Well, most modern scientific calculators aren’t really Computer Algebra Systems and therefor don’t understand what infinity is. But, depending on the accuracy needed, and how fast it converges, normally using 100 or 1000 is …
Using the method used by Thales to find the height of the Cheops pyramid eons ago, you can find the height of anything that the sun casts a shadow of. Oddly, it seems that few people I know know this trick. I’m pretty sure I learned it in 6th grade geometry, maybe I taught it …
The What If? blog recently asked What if everyone who took the SAT guessed on every multiple-choice question? How many perfect scores would there be? This got me thinking. Since using the Monte Carlo Method is one of my favorite methods to solve problems, it seemed that this would be a perfect problem to solve. …