Bossy Lobster

A blog by Danny Hermes; musing on tech, mathematics, etc.

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Reverse Calculating An Interest Rate

I was recently playing around with some loan data and only happened to have the term (or length, or duration) of the loan, the amount of the recurring payment (in this case monthly) and the remaining principal owed on the loan. I figured there was an easy way to get …

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Silly Pranks on your Friends

Disclaimer: These are silly little pranks, but I don't encourage messing with someone's computing environment without letting them know you have done so.

First Prank:

I have a friend who really likes to read people.com, so I figured I would "enrich" her life a bit with another source of …

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Where have I been?

Well, it's been a bit crazy and I haven't written a blog post in ages. I have several brewing, but had just been too busy at work (and a ton of travel for personal fun) to really have the excess time to write.

This return post will not have much …