The cockroach of writing

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 […]

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When 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 […]

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Time 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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