ColinTheMathmo @ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz
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There's a fine line between numerator and denominator (and it's called a 'vinculum').
The future is already here - it's just not very evenly distributed. -- William Gibson
Procaffinating: To delay or postpone action; put off doing something until you've had coffee.
My latest bloggy thing - exploring and explaining tidal forces:
https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/TheForeAftTide.html?sc19m
As always, comments and criticisms welcome.
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@ColinTheMathmo Oh, 'twas my pleasure. Quite literally, as your diagram provided me with an incentive to figure out how to use cairo from Haskell.
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As Easter is coming up, I'd like to take a moment to say that bunnies are cute but also huge dickheads. They're rarely docile and cuddly and will absolutely destroy everything you love.
They live 10+ years, cost as much as a dog, and need a lot of time and attention. 75% of rabbits in the UK are neglected and many bought at Easter don't even make it to a year old.
Know what you're getting into, or stick with chocolate. http://bunny.nipple.solutions
Q: What do you get when you cross a mosquito with a mountaineer? A: Nothing - you can't cross a vector with a scalar.
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So I'm moving up to Edinburgh in the next three months. Do I know anyone connected on Masto who lives up there? :)
Would love any advice you have!
A request for those into both maths and technology - I need a diagram with an ellipse & a circle, each of the same area, the circle centred on one of the foci, & the ellipse a little eccentric, but enough to be clearly different from the circle.
Help??
I can draw an ellipse, & I can probably work out where the foci are, but getting them honestly of equal area is trickier. Ideally a diagram showing a family of ellipses of equal area, sharing a focus, including the circle, would *also* be good.
I was obliged to be industrious; whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well. -- J.S.Bach
Medicine bottle: 'Keep away from children.' ... Excellent advice.
Some passes of the #ISS visible from the UK overnight - I'll tweet/toot warnings closer to the time
My latest bloggy thing:
https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/TheSidewaysTide.html?sc15m
As always, comments, thoughts, criticisms, and feedback, all welcome.
Have to say that this "one blog post per week" is a brutal schedule.
Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. -- Roosevelt's Law of Task Planning
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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. -- Renyi (although often attributed to Erdos)
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