Shamir Secret Sharing Scheme
Useful page to split a secret into n parts such that k are required to reconstruct the original using the Shamir Secret Sharing Scheme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K54ildEW9-Q
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mathematics
toothpick-like sequence exploration
These are some pretty neat patterns.
via Numberphile
An amazing approximation of e
An amazing pandigital approximation to e that is correct to 18457734525360901453873570 decimal digits found by R. Sabey in 2004.
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1945026/an-amazing-approximation-of-e
Poisson distributions and the Hitchhiker's paradox
That is some bizarre probability theory!
https://the8layers.com/2016/10/30/how-long-will-you-wait-hitchhiking-on-the-road/
From boiling lead and black art: An essay on the history of mathematical typography
Typesetting be hard work: "the word "present" as a noun hyphenates differently than the same word as a verb"
Knuth on possible future changes to TeX and METAFONT: "Let us regard these systems as fixed points, which should give the same results 100 years from now that they produce today."
Following 3.0, Knuth wanted point release updates to follow the progression of π (the current version is 3.14159265). Knuth also declared that on his death, the version number should be permanently set to π. “From that moment on,” he ordained “all ‘bugs’ will be permanent ‘features.’”
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
Including this interesting self-referential one - the Kolakoski sequence.
Richard Feynman on The True Meaning of Physics
An Omni magazine interview with Richard Feynman.