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PyValem: a Python package for parsing chemical formulas and states
Posted by: christian on 24 Mar 2020
PyValem is a Python package, for parsing, representing and manipulating the formulas of simple chemical species, their states and reactions. Its source is available on GitHub under a GPL licence, and it can be installed from the Python Package Index, PyPI, using pip:
Recamán's sequence
Posted by: christian in Featured on frontpage on 29 Feb 2020
The Recamán sequence is a famous sequence invented by the Colombian mathematician, Bernardo Recamán Santos. It is defined by the following algorithm, starting at $a_0 = 0$:
The Möbius function and the Mertens conjecture
Posted by: christian on 25 Jan 2020
This blog post was inspired by Holly Krieger's video for Numberphile.
Searching for pi-mnemonic strings in a text
Posted by: christian on 19 Dec 2019
Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant $\pi$. One famous technique, attributed to the physicist James Jeans uses the number of letters in each word of the sentence:
Quadtrees #1: Background
Posted by: christian on 15 Nov 2019
The quadtree data structure is a convenient way to store the location of arbitrarily-distributed points in two-dimensional space. Quadtrees are often used in image processing and collision detection.