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Operators, Functions, and Properties – part 43
In the last several posts in this series, we’ve looked at cyclical patterns of behavior of numbers and operators. For example, in the previous post we saw that when counting up, the last digit … more →
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Operators, Functions, and Properties - part 43
wrote 1 year ago: In the last several posts in this series, we’ve looked at cyclical patterns of behavior of num … more →
Operators, Functions, and Properties - part 37
wrote 1 year ago: In this series we’ve looked at boxes that take certain inputs and then produce an output. We … more →
Operators, Functions, and Properties - part 33
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wrote 1 year ago: In this series we have looked at various examples of operators, and most of our attention has been o … more →
Operators, Functions, and Properties - part 31
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wrote 1 year ago: In the prior post in this series, we looked at the kind of operators typically encountered in school … more →
Operators, Functions, and Properties - part 30
wrote 1 year ago: In many of the posts in this series we’ve shown operators that work on a single number coming … more →
Operators, Functions, and Properties - part 24
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wrote 1 year ago: In the previous post in this series, we started to model recurrence relationships with state machine … more →
Operators, Functions, and Properties - part 23
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wrote 1 year ago: In this series, we’ve been looking at operators as something that modifies the state of some m … more →
Groupings, Shopping Lists, and Vectors: The Series
wrote 1 year ago: This is a series on vector algebra, but it hasn’t wrapped up yet. Here are the installments as of n … more →
Operators, Functions, and Properties - part 11
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wrote 1 year ago: In the prior post of this series, we looked at pairs of operators in which one of the pair cancels o … more →
Operators, Functions, and Properties: The Series
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wrote 1 year ago: This series of posts introduces the notion of an operator as something that changes the state of som … more →
Exchange Is Creation - Rukeyser
wrote 2 years ago: exchange is creation - Muriel Rukeyser, 1913-1980, from The Life of Poetry Rukeyser was a poet, and … more →
Memes and their Cyclicality
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wrote 2 years ago: It is very tempting to look for parallels between biological evolution and cultural evolution. Ther … more →
The Whole and the Parts - The Series
wrote 2 years ago: I’ve written a number of posts where the main theme is a whole that is more than just the sum … more →
On Cooperation and Participation
wrote 2 years ago: If you ask some random acquaintances what they think of when they hear the word “cooperation … more →
Quantity - The Series
wrote 2 years ago: In this series, we take a leisurely look at quantities of different kinds. It is rather interesting … more →
Horizontal Gene Transfer
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wrote 2 years ago: People who compare cultural evolution to biological evolution would do well to take a very broad loo … more →
Notes on Flocking Behavior
wrote 2 years ago: Complex behavior can arise from very simple rules. This has been observed and studied for ant coloni … more →
Daylight Savings Time and other Rituals
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wrote 2 years ago: In the USA we just went through an obligatory ritual: this is the day where the country switches to … more →
Can We Avoid Rush Hour By All Leaving Early?
wrote 2 years ago: If I live in an area where there is a well-defined rush hour, and I have the option to come in to wo … more →
