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What I learned today

On October 27, 2010, Posted by , In whatilearned, By , With No Comments

If one picks a number at random from the universe, there is a 30% chance that the first digit will be 1. How awesome is that? For example, pick up any science text and tally the occrances of each of the nine digits starting a number (0 does not count)….

Today I learned

On October 13, 2010, Posted by , In whatilearned, By , With No Comments

Today, I learned the awesomeness of the “*” printf formatting rule. printf(“%*c”, 5, ‘t’) will print 5 tabs. Behold, I no longer need employ loops for indenting!

I dream of diff e q

On October 13, 2010, Posted by , In Science, By ,, , With No Comments

One of my dreams last night involved me solving a partial differential equation in extensive detail. That is pretty nerdy by itself, but the result of completing the derivation was unlocking some sort of pornography.