a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Inspired by a Numberphile video, Simon talks about Unix time and how it’s calculated on 32 bit computers and why there will be a date when the time ends on … Continue reading Why we should all stop using 32 bit computers
Simon has filmed this video without my help. This was completely upon his own initiative. He used OBS to record the tutorial, uploaded it to YouTube and added some end … Continue reading Pseudo-Randomness
Simon wrote a program in Processing that plays the music of Pi. The idea to assign every integer a sound frequency belongs to the Numberphile channel, but Simon came up … Continue reading Music of Pi in Processing
Simon saw an interesting example on Numberphile and came up with a more general formula for a case when a number can never be prime. Later someone noticed in the … Continue reading For the love of math
This random number generator Simon built in Processing simultaneously graphs the probability of the values as you “throw the dice”. This is Simon’s own code and what’s more, he … Continue reading Random Number Generator Graphing Probability
Simon came up with a tool (a circle where you install a pencil) to draw curved lines. He explains how the curved line actually draws the absolute value of the … Continue reading Simon’s Sine Wave Tool
Simon’s live stream last night was a blast. Simon worked on two games on a grid: 15s Puzzle and Connect Four, both in Processing (Java). He had already made the … Continue reading Live Stream #8: Games on a grid in Processing
Simon spent hours calculating – something he’s not particularly fond of if it were simple/ pointless sums, the way schoolkids work. His was not pointless! He did it with the … Continue reading Numbers as products of primes (a useful calculation practice). And the general beauty of primes.
What shape can roll well, other than a circle (wheel)? Two circles, attached together according to a formula involving a square root of two! Simon made these “wobbly circles” inspired … Continue reading Wobbly Circles and the Center of Mass
Simon came up with a function that for bigger inputs approaches Pi. He has seen that the result of a function for infinity ∞ f(infinity) = Pi/4 in a Numberphile … Continue reading Simon’s Function for Pi
Inspired by a Numberphile video, where Simon learned the technique to express the Fibonacci sequence in musical notes.
Simon built this Snakes and Ladders game on January 27 based on Daniel Shiffman’s live stream (from January 26), adding some extra features of his own. The game is online … Continue reading Snakes and Ladders in p5.js
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