Being unable to completely give up math for computers, I am naturally drawn to Project Euler and as a result solved a ridiculous number of the problems posted there while learning Python. A few months ago (March 13), after reading Secrets of a Javascript Ninja, I decided to begin converting …
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It's official, I am a grown up!
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Continued fraction expansions of irrational square roots
I had no idea (until this Thursday, July 16 2011) that I had never seen a proof of the fact that the continued fraction expansion of is periodic whenever is not a perfect square. But have no fear, I found out about something …
Continued Fractions for the Greater Good part 1
OK, maybe not for the greater good, but still fun. This first post will be relatively short and sweet, intended to give an introduction for the posts that will follow.
Before the introduction, some motivation courtesy of Wikipedia:
...decimal representation has some problems. One problem is that many rational numbers …
Verifying 1and1 Site Ownership with Google Apps
Hello freens. I purchased bossylobster.com from 1&1
recently with the intent of hosting it on Google App Engine. I soon
found out how delightful this process is. I made a 0.1
version for my
site at bossylobster.appspot.com and
decided to launch by clicking Add Domain …