Category Archives: mathematics

can the disco ball be improved?

Posted on Monday, 2004 August 09 by Anton

This site has a new page, comparing three algorithms for packing nodes on a sphere. Comments invited. It’s the first time I’ve used a table in HTML! 480 12.869074 14.172741 16.211562

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wish I could help

Posted on Sunday, 2004 August 01 by Anton

Someone recently found my mathematical doodles page by searching for analemma golden ratio. I hope the visitor was enlightened, but as far as I know there’s no relation between the golden ratio and the analemma!

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nightmares

Posted on Thursday, 2004 July 15 by Anton

I dreamed that Ed Pegg had closed down Mathpuzzle and moved to the Balkans. (Whew.)

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the transcendental dope

Posted on Friday, 2004 June 18 by Anton

The Straight Dope currently has a column about the golden ratio and a staff report about Fibonacci numbers. These have prompted a thread on the Straight Dope Message Board which raises a couple of mathematical questions to which I’d like … Continue reading →

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domequest

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 June 02 by Anton

My fullerene page was the first webpage I made, in 1998. The C programs whose output is shown there – to enumerate pentagon-hexagon topologies, and to estimate their 3D shapes – were lost years ago; I wanted to improve and … Continue reading →

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as we suspected

Posted on Saturday, 2004 May 15 by Anton

Ellipsoids can be packed denser than spheres can. (Cited by Oliver Xymoron.) One of these days I must make a doodle of this result.

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that gun gave up smoking