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Taking a break
If you are following my blog regularly, you will know that I usually posts once a week on Saturday. However, nothing new has been posted the last couple of weeks. I just wanted to let you know that the site has not been abandoned or anything like that. However, I do have a lot of [...]
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Merry Christmas
24 December 2012
A very merry Christmas to all of you out there. If you don’t celebrate Christmas, I still wish you a happy on of them. It is a wonderful time to spend time with your families and I hope that you all got something nice for and mathy for Christmas. Personally I use some of the [...]
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Constructive criticism – A viewpoint from the soap boax
19 November 2012
Lately quite a few comments trickle in to mathblog, and I absolutely love that. Everything from pointing out mistakes, showing solutions, given pointers for other solution methods and all the way to disagreeing with me. As everyone who has posted a comment also know, is that I hold all comments for moderation. I do that mainly in order [...]
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Relatively prime – Stories from the mathematical domain
1 November 2012
Yesterday I listened to an episode of Relatively prime called Chinook. And it has been one of the most compelling stories I have ever heard. It was a fantastic but also sad story about checkers and man against machine, a battle that lasted two decades. Relatively Prime is a series of eight shows all about the stories behind [...]
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A few interesting courses
12 October 2012
A friend of mine pointed me towards something that looks like an interesting course And sparking my curiosity I started digging around a bit and found a few more courses in the field of computer science and math, that I found interesting. I haven’t had time to take actually watch them yet, but I thought [...]
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Monday links
13 August 2012
Another Monday is upon us, and another batch of links is due. This week I'm going to focus on Dynamic Programming (or DP for short). The reason is that upcoming Project Euler problems are DP- and memoization heavy. Another reason is that DP problems are quite popular, so it's definitely a good skill to have.Take a look inside for more.
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Monday links
30 July 2012
This Monday I have a couple of links lined up, both math related and non-math related. An interesting mathematics Wikibook, an exciting website with a collection of fun programming exercises, introduction to Git and introduction to primality testing, all in today's Monday links. Take a look inside the post for further details.
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The MathBlog tools collection updated
21 May 2012
Just wanted to make a bit of advertisement for the tool section of the website which have been updated and new tools added. Bjarki has been busy and developed several new tools which might come in handy for you when trying to see if a hypothesis could lead to a solution for the problem you are sitting [...]
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Join the competitions they said! See new worlds they said!
7 May 2012
We have added a new section to the site with many more programming challenges and upcoming competitions and events. Sites with programming challenges First of all we have a list of sites which offers programming and math challenges for you to try out. It can be found in the top menu under programming challenges. So [...]
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The new kid on the blog
4 May 2012
As you (of course) must have noticed, not all of the posts are written by me anymore. I have gotten a new guy on board in order to serve you even more goodies than I my self was able to. So I would like to formally welcome Bjarki on board on the blog and hope that [...]
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- Project Euler 146: Investigating a Prime Pattern
- Project Euler 145: How many reversible numbers are there below one-billion?
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- Project Euler 144: Investigating multiple reflections of a laser beam.
- Project Euler 143: Investigating the Torricelli point of a triangle
- Project Euler 142: Perfect Square Collection
- Project Euler 141:Investigating progressive numbers, n, which are also square.
- Project Euler 140: Modified Fibonacci golden nuggets
- Project Euler 139: Pythagorean tiles
- reiden4: what a great and simple solution.. I got it right but it took me a while by using strings and adding its length.. I have never thought of this soluti...
- Son-Huy TRAN: I found that if 1 + a + b is prime, so : 1 + a + b > 1 => a + b > 0Because b is prime so b > 0, so if a < 0 : |a| < |b|So ...
- Jevon Jaconi: late arrival to the party and now it ends; that's my luck - j/k - have a good one and look forward to reading it again soon!;...
- Jean-Marie Hachey: Hi Kristian,Thank you very much for all the work done on your blog. Impressive production. Highly appreciated.Jeg takker dem meget, Merci b...
- S.Ged: Why all of numbers coming at most 1 time ?...
- Bjarki Ágúst: This is one of my favorite problems. I solved it very similarly. Given [latex]p_1[/latex] and [latex]p_2[/latex], I wanted to find an integer [latex]x...
18 May 2013
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