Like many other software engineers out there, I love XKCD so whenever Randall publishes a comic with something computationally interesting I like to take a stab at it. Friday's comic
Square Root
The Square of a number, X2, is any number multiplied by its self. 22 = 4, 42 = 16, 62 = 36 etc. The square root of a number is the derived by reducing a number so that the &rad
Rounding Numbers
Rounding numbers is rudimentary math, often times we do it in our head without even realizing we've done it.
The Collatz Conjecture
The Collatz conjecture is an interesting "open" math problem regarding sequence generation. First proposed in 1937, the conjecture states that if you start with any positive integer(n), and if its