Equatorial temperatures
This one strikes me, and apparently others, as highly counter-intuitive, but it’s true because of mathematics! Take any two places in the world; call thes...
Month: February 2014
Reflection
“There’s a shadow in the mirror with a glimmer of the one that was.” My creative juices are like a gas-powered lawn mower that’s been ke...
Pseudocode for the Russian peasant method of binary
Just for fun… Here’s the pseudocode for the method of building a binary number from a decimal number, based on the Russian peasant method of multipl...
Russian peasants, number sense, and bases
Russian peasants do too much work There is a method of multiplication called the Russian peasant method. I’ve seen it mentioned here and there, but I was ...
The Wayward Airline Passenger
This problem was brought to my attention on G+, but I wasn’t satisfied with the solution presented. There are actually two versions, the one that was orig...