Victor Loux Bookmarks Tag: math

27 bookmarks tagged “math

Between the spreadsheets | The Economist

economist.com/1843/2020/02/20/between-the-spreadsheets
The management consultant’s guide to love and sex, by Alice Hines | 1843 magazine

The Frink is Good, the Unit is Evil • Hillel Wayne

hillelwayne.com/post/frink/
One day Alan Eliasen read a fart joke and got so mad he invented a programming language. 20 years later Frink is one of the best special purpose languages for dealing with units. “But why do we need a language just for dealing with units?” Glad you asked! Intro to Units A unit is the physical property a number represents, like distance or time. We almost always are talking about SI units, or Système international.

Gamedev Tutorial: Trigonometry Basics – Sine & Cosine | Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou | 周明倫

allenchou.net/2019/08/trigonometry-basics-sine-cosine/
[latexpage] Here is the Chinese translation of this post.本文之中文翻譯在此 Overview Trigonometry is a very essential building block to a huge portion of game math.

Omni Calculator

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Omni Calculator solves 541 problems anywhere from finance and business to health. It’s so fast and easy you won’t want to do the math again!

Desperately seeking squircles – Figma Design

blog.figma.com/desperately-seeking-squircles-8eb8db9b654b
This is a story about one Figma engineer’s hunt for the perfect answer to a programming challenge. In a famous 1972 interview, Charles Eames answered a short…

Programming with Escher

mapio.github.io/programming-with-escher/
This notebook is a collection of preliminary notes about a "code camp" (or a series of lectures) aimed at young students inspired by the fascinating Functional Geometry paper of Peter Henderson.