PEOPLE OF THE WOLF (O'NEAL-GEAR): to Chapter 45. The People (the POV tribe in the story), led by Wolf Dreamer's aggressive twin brother Crow Caller, launch their first retaliatory attacks against the enemy tribe. The younger men get their first taste of violence and cruelty, and find that they like it. The passing of two beloved figures forces ( Read more... )

Posting mostly for my own reference. Factorizations of the ages of the antediluvian generations, and their ages at first fatherhood as a reduced fraction. Created in Matlab. ("rats" is the command for a rational expression.)

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I'm working on getting my C++ skills out of mothballs, and I wrote up this program to approximate the value of Pi/4 based on the series 1 - 1/3 + 1/5 ... etc ( Read more... )

You get good at anything by practicing it a lot, and that includes mathematics. I wanted to bring my foundational math skills up to a good strong level, and I didn't want to schlep around a lot of textbooks. So after a little poking around I discovered Kuta Software (based in Istanbul), which markets a line of "Infinite" math worksheet programs ( Read more... )

Just the other day, I posted this comment on a thread at andrewducker:

'Mathematics isn't my strongest subject; language is. But I do remember sitting in 2nd semester Calculus, looking for 'u' and 'du' in an integrand, and thinking that it felt very much like a grammatical problem: looking for patterns in a collection of symbols.'

Now - via andrewducker again - here's a ( Read more... )

I don't ever want her to be scared of numbers, so I've made it a point to get her comfortable with the language and concepts of mathematics. We spent a lot of time working on just plain number recognition; I bought a mechanical lap counter and we used it to count up to 200 together. Then I used Mathematica to print columns of random three-digit ( Read more... )