Mathspp Blog
A blog dedicated to mathematics and programming!
This blog has a really interesting assortment of articles on mathematics and programming. You can use the tags to your right to find topics that interest you, or you may want to have a look at
- the problems I wrote to get your brain working;
- some twitter proofs of mathematical facts.
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HueHue is a very colourful game I wrote with my colleague @inesfmarques.
In this post I talked about the riddle of the water buckets. Now I challenge you to prove that in some situations it is impossible to solve it!
Can you measure exactly \(2\)L of water with two plain buckets with volumes of \(14\)L and \(5\)L? Of course you can!
A regular expression, without much rigor, is a very compact way of representing several different strings. Given a regular expression (regex), can I find out all the strings the regex can find?
Let's prove that there are two irrational numbers, call them \(a\) and \(b\), such that \(a^b\) is a rational number! And let's do it in a tweet.
Gandalf has some Hobbits to appease but his task seems to go on forever. Can you give him a hand..?
Two friends were bored and decided to play a game... a mathematical game with a paper bag!
This post's format will be a bit different from the usual and the first of a series of posts of this type. In this post, I will state a problem and then present my solution.
Here's how I like to solve my equations: just walk around randomly until I trip over a solution!
Think of a drunk man that continuously tumbles left and right, back and forth, with no final destination.
Progress is great and new things are always exciting... but that doesn't mean old things don't have any value!
The filled Julia set is a really cool fractal that kind of resembles the Mandelbrot set!
In this post I just ramble a bit through some mathematician's definition of what a recursive function is...
This blog post tells the short story of how I wrote a simple interpreter for a toy programming language!
I have always liked the concept of fractal. They are very beautiful, they have a notion of infinity embedded in them, and they make no sense (seriously though, self-similarity?). How could they not be loved?
This blog post has a single purpose, which is to show you the weird game I made, inspired by Flappy Bird and my crazy English teacher.
Minesweeper has to be one of the most well-known minigames of all time, no? I spent my fair share of Sunday mornings playing minesweeper in my Windows XP computer...
