John 
I love a merger. You inevitably hear about all the horrible no-good unprofitable customers you were forced to set free. It’s like the high school reunion, where you discover the math nerd is a bitcoin billionaire and the head cheerleader … Read more
The previous post showed that the bits of prime powers look kinda chaotic. When you plot them, they form a triangular shape because the size of the numbers is growing. The numbers are growing geometrically, so their binary representations are … Read more
Mathematics notation changes slowly over time, generally for the better. I can’t think of an instance that I think was a step backward. Gauss introduced the notation [x] for the greatest integer less than or equal to x in 1808. … Read more