Background info: the Tower of Hanoi is a puzzle involving moving a stack of disks from one peg to another, one at a time. The Sierpinski triangle is a fractal generated by cutting an equilateral triangle into four and continuing with the three corners. Turns out there’s more to the Tower of Hanoi than I […]
read moreWhen it comes to measuring time, the metric prefixes are commonly used for periods less than one second long, but longer than that it becomes the mess that is minutes, hours, days and beyond. But have you ever wondered what the proper, SI, power-of-1000 equivalences are? Here’s are some handy conversions. SI unit Rough equivalence […]
read moreThere’s a common view of black holes as these mysterious, deadly objects that consume and destroy everything in their path. It’s quite inaccurate. The true part of it all is that yes, beyond the event horizon the force of gravity is so strong that literally nothing can escape. The key part is “beyond the event […]
read moreTime for me to talk about another program I’ve come across, downloaded and thoroughly enjoyed, so hopefully others can do the same. This time it’s Golly, a desktop application for simulating cellular automata. And I use the general term intentionally: rather than just Conway’s Game of Life (CGOL, GOL or even just “Life”) for which […]
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