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Fractal Generator " FRACTAL GENERATOR "PARAGON" (Official Streaming Video) (Music Video)
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (30+ words) FRACTAL GENERATOR "PARAGON" (Official Streaming Video) Dork | Down With Boring Fractal Generator " FRACTAL GENERATOR "PARAGON" (Official Streaming Video) Fractal Generator's music video for "FRACTAL GENERATOR "PARAGON" (Official Streaming Video)"....
Scientists catalog the "fractal dimensions" of more than 130, 000 islands
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (518+ words) Scientific American Scientists catalog the "fractal dimensions" of more than 130, 000 islands The "coastline paradox" helped to define fractals, but coastlines themselves turn out to be less fractal than thought By Alex Music edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Coastlines' intricate perimeters…...
Hexagons, fractals, and flows: nature's patterns inspire humans
1+ week, 3+ day ago (315+ words) Observing nature carefully allows us to discover recurring shapes and structures. This is no coincidence: it is based on rules and patterns that often have a mathematical basis. Understanding them helps scientists better comprehend how ecosystems function, how species are…...
Triangular analog of the squircle
1+ week, 6+ day ago (165+ words) Tim F left a comment on my guitar pick post saying the image was a "squircle-ish analog for an isosceles triangle." That made me wonder what a more direct analog of the squircle might be for a triangle. A squircle…...
Heartwarming: The Thousands Of Texts And Photos Exchanged Between This High School Math Teacher And Her Male Student Were About The Pythagorean Theorem
1+ week, 6+ day ago (278+ words) Looking to feel all warm and fuzzy? Well, here you go: Awwwww. Just a dedicated teacher working overtime off the clock to help a student understand a fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry! When 16-year-old Reno High School student Bryan Clark's…...
The "Plan B" Insult: Why a Student is Heartbroken After Her Advisor Suggested Dentistry as a "Backup" to Medicine
2+ week, 1+ day ago (555+ words) When taking exams at school to see what job you might be able to get, it is good to try for things you want but also to have realistic expectations. What would you do if you had a student who…...
Approximating even functions by powers of cosine
2+ week, 5+ day ago (221+ words) A couple days ago I wrote a post about turning a trick into a technique, finding another use for a clever way to construct simple, accurate approximations. I used as my example approximating the Bessel function J(x) with (1 + cos(x))/2. I…...