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Area of unit disk under a univalent function
3+ day, 14+ hour ago —...up most of the Mandelbrot set.... ...The area of the minimalist Mandelbrot set is 7π/16 = 1.3744....
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Random samples from a polygon
3+ day, 23+ hour ago —...Ted Dunning left a comment on my post on random sampling from a triangle...
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A triangle inequality by Erdős
4+ day, 3+ hour ago —...the triangle than near the vertices. [1] Problem 3740, American Mathematical... ...generate random points and care the two sides of the Erdős-Mordell-Barrow...
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A mental random number generator
5+ day, 13+ hour ago —...George Marsaglia was a big name in random number generation....
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New symbols in Unicode 17
5+ day, 13+ hour ago —..., Flora, Metis, Parthenope, Victoria, Egeria, Irene, Eunomia, Psyche... ...Also, Proserpina, Astraea, Hygiea, Pholus, and Nessus have Unicode...
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Mandelbrot and Fat Tails
6+ day, 4+ hour ago —...The Mandelbrot set is the set of complex numbers c such that iterations... ...The plot above groups escape times into buckets of 1,000.... ...Maybe there has been work on fitting a distribution to escape times...
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Bech32 encoding | Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem (BCH) codes
6+ day, 9+ hour ago —...The Bech32 algorithm includes a BCH (Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem)... ...I’ve had a surprisingly hard time finding the specifics of the BCH...