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20th Century

Benford’s Law

16th November 2020 OldTrout 2388 Comments

Benford’s Law is a theory of leading digits in numerical data sets. Whilst one might think that the frequency of the leading digit would be equally distributed across the nine digits each with approximately 11% [more…]

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The Padovan Sequence and the Plastic Ratio

12th October 2020 OldTrout 3999 Comments

The golden ratio is well known and is associated with the Fibonacci sequence of numbers.     (phi) is the positive root of the quadratic equation . The exact value is given by Its continued [more…]

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18th Century

Sophie Germain Primes and Cunningham Chains

28th September 2020 OldTrout 2231 Comments

A Sophie Germain prime is a prime number such that is also a prime number. That is, ,  where and are both prime.  For example, . The sequence begins Sophie Germain () explored these primes [more…]

Mathematics

The Infinity of the Primes

21st September 2020 OldTrout 2521 Comments

Euclid’s Elements, Book IX, Proposition 20. Theorem : Prime numbers are more than any assigned multitude of prime numbers. That is, there are infinitely many primes. Proof : Suppose that there are primes : Let [more…]

19th Century

Holography, Part Four

9th September 2020 Doc Mike Finnley 5304 Comments

Holograph Examples The PFG-01 holographic film that I’ve used in the examples below is ideally suited to making transmission holograms but it can also be used to make reflection holograms. Reflection Holograms One of the [more…]

Mathematics

The Number of Derangements

7th September 2020 OldTrout 2048 Comments

Read as : the limit, as approaches infinity, of subfactorial divided by factorial is equal to divided by which approximates to , where is Euler’s number, The Hat Check Problem, as first described by Montmort [more…]

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Nothing is Beyond Our Reach

3rd September 2020 Always Worth Saying 3957 Comments

During a presidential debate, a little old lady, her grey hair in a bun, asks, “Name the three most important Space Race countries”. Sleepy-creepy Jo Biden, from his basement and with the benefit of voice [more…]

19th Century

Holography, Part Three

2nd September 2020 Doc Mike Finnley 2994 Comments

A Simple Dual Beam Setup We’ve got our film, developer and a safety lamp. Now we need a holographic camera. Well, not exactly a camera. You can’t take a picture of rolling hills or a [more…]

Mathematics

On Punctuation!

31st August 2020 OldTrout 3524 Comments

Apparently, some subset of younger people are upset and intimidated about the use of full stops in text and other messages. I am not sure what they would think about the ellipsis, … , or [more…]

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