Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Euler’s totient function counts the number of positive integers up to that are relatively prime to , where is considered to be relatively prime to all .  These numbers are called the totatives of . [more…]

I saw a piece to camera from Sonia Poulton before Christmas who felt Hollywood was less than helpful in its portrayal of a Christmas as a sugary confection of unreasonable expectation. True of course because [more…]

Let me start at the beginning of my knowledge. I spent my 21st Birthday in Prison. A simple statement. Mind you, as I had spent my 19th Birthday at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, my [more…]