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Matt Ball on Technology: Is 91 Prime?

2008 Mar 12, 1:57How to test if an integer is divisible by 2, 5, 3, 7, or 11. I knew about testing for divisibility by 3 but not why it worked.PermalinkCommentsblog math article prime

CSE 590YA - Winter '02 - Lectures and Archived Materials

2008 Mar 10, 3:20Josh Benaloh / Brian LaMacchina encryption course at University of Washington available for free. Slides and audio from the course are available. Recommended by course through my company.PermalinkCommentsmath encryption education security csc todo

Mathematics for the President and Congress

2008 Mar 9, 1:17"It is, quite frankly, one of the best critiques of current K-12 mathematics education I have ever seen. Written by a first-class research mathematician who elected to devote his teaching career to K-12 education."PermalinkCommentsvia:ethan_t_hein math education paper

MathML to VML/SVG via XSLT (Chris Pollett > Students > Namon)

2008 Mar 8, 11:23"Translating a fragment of MathMLPurpose: To get the MathML matrix related, apply, minus, times, divide, and eq tags to translate to VML and to SVG via XSLT."PermalinkCommentsNamon-Nuttayasakul mathml vml svg xslt xml convert

Putting mathematics on the Web with MathML

2008 Mar 3, 9:19A howto from W3C on using MathML in a way that many people will be able to use.PermalinkCommentsmath mathml web w3c reference browser plugin

Converting Pi to binary: Don't do it!@Everything2.com

2008 Jan 3, 11:41The legal reasons why you shouldn't compute Pi in binary.PermalinkCommentscopyright english geek humor math pi

The Old New Thing : Nicolas Bourbaki, perhaps the biggest inside joke in mathematics

2007 Oct 15, 11:30Raymond talks about false names used in math publications.PermalinkCommentsmath humor raymond-chen blog article

The Uneasy Relationship Between Mathematics and Cryptography

2007 Aug 13, 2:05From : "Rarely do we think of mathematicians as glamorous. But during the 1980s, the rising importance of cryptography injected a certain amount of glitz into the discipline.PermalinkCommentsmath article history cryptography

Super Deluxe - 789... Do The Math

2007 Jul 30, 12:52Why was 10 afraid of 7? In video form.PermalinkCommentshumor video math

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

2007 Jun 19, 9:25Unfortunate versions of popular pickup lines.PermalinkCommentscomic xkcd pickup-lines relationship humor

Difficult Captcha Screenshot

2007 Jun 3, 11:25Screenshot of a captcha involving math...PermalinkCommentscaptcha images humor math security spam robots.txt

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

2007 Jun 3, 11:22xkcd's captcha proposal.PermalinkCommentscaptcha comic humor security robot spam xkcd

Who Can Name the Bigger Number?

2007 May 17, 4:33FTA: 'The key to the biggest number contest is not swift penmanship, but rather a potent paradigm for concisely capturing the gargantuan.'PermalinkCommentsarticle education math science humor csc

MathTrek: Can't Knock It Down

2007 Apr 17, 12:28Mathematicians design an object that can't be knocked down. I like the part when looking for self righting objects in the natural world they test turtles...PermalinkCommentsmath humor balance

Good Math, Bad Math : Prime Number Pathology: Fractran

2007 Apr 12, 2:04A programming language expressed and evaluated with prime numbers.PermalinkCommentsmath prime programming language algorithm turing

Velocity Web Site - Blink-free photos, guaranteed

2007 Feb 20, 1:00Guy applies statistics to figuring out how many pictures you need to take of a group in order to probably get one without anyone blinking.PermalinkCommentsphotography photo blink math statistics howto article

xkcd

2006 Dec 28, 2:09A humorous nerdy webcomic.PermalinkCommentscomics humor comic math science nerd daily language

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

2006 Dec 28, 1:18This one is also funnyPermalinkCommentscomic math humor your-mom for:jozhik

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

2006 Dec 28, 1:15On the topic of your desired major.PermalinkCommentscomic language humor math computational-linguistics for:jozhik

Firefox and Witchcraft - The Connection? (xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe)

2006 Dec 28, 1:09Humorous graph likely produced by 3rd party and in no way generated by Microsoft.PermalinkCommentsfirefox humor comic microsoft mozilla ie witchcraft
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