a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon has returned to his beloved Cellular Automata theme and created this nice sequence comprising all the 256 elementary rules. You can access his code at https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/gECh5tVwa Simon explains: Every … Continue reading All 256 Elementary Cellular Automata
In October, Simon’s videos were featured on the Global Math Project website! The bulk are his latest three videos with detailed proofs of pile-splitting magic: In this video, I will … Continue reading Simon’s videos are featured on the Global Math Project website!
Back in October, Simon got fascinated with this weird system called p-adic numbers (where p stands for “prime”). It’s a system in which you can have numbers going infinitely far … Continue reading P-adic System is used in computers!
I’ve figured out how to do square-roots in binary on Napier’s Checkerboard! I’ve learned how to do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division from James Tanton’s vids. I’ve shown how to … Continue reading Square Roots on Napier’s Checkerboard
Simon has shown me an interesting way to add, subtract and multiply in binary using what is called a Napier’s Checkerboard (or Napier’s Chessboard), something he learned from his new … Continue reading A “quirky way to add, subtract and multiply in binary”
I’ve discovered that base 3 is the most efficient base (not base 2). Actually the most efficient base is e, and 3 is the closest to e (the proof requires … Continue reading The most efficient base
What you see here is the sequence of moves to solve the Towers of Hanoi puzzle. The sequence goes up to 2 to the power of the number of rings … Continue reading Tower of Hanoi moves plotted under a binary log plot
How many bits will computer operation memory have and how many do we need to have to link every single particle in the Universe to the internet? And how useful … Continue reading Computers of the Future: How Far Do We Need to Go?
It’s my birthday today and Simon has calculated my age in bases 2-12, 16 and 20! In the video, he explains what my color is in hexadecimal (base 16), how … Continue reading Mom is 100111! And she is 33! And 124!
During his biweekly math lesson: Mom, we are converting into binary numbers! The same night Simon said to me: “Mom, you know how we have once talked about programming lessons?” … Continue reading Math touching programming
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