Abraham Lincoln once famously said, “Everybody loves a compliment.” I suspect that if he had been a mathematician he would have loved complements, too. We’ve already seen what complements are and talked about the two most prolific: the radix complement and the diminished radix complement. Now it’s time to explore how we can leverage complements …
January 2017 archive
Jan 25 2017
Chad Parker monsterZ Marble
By the time December of last year rolled around, my family had been participating in the World’s Biggest Marble Hunt for several months. During that time we had found many breathtaking marbles created by some of the most talented artists in the world including Geoffrey Beetem, Topher Reynolds, and Tucker Heebner. One artist whose iconic …
Jan 21 2017
How to Install Pip on Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak
I am excited this evening. Why? Because I am finally getting back to some real Python development. While I have recently coded up some GIMP plug-ins, I haven’t really taken the time to properly set up my Python environment since making the switch from OS X to Ubuntu in December. Now I’ve got some Django programming …
Jan 10 2017
Number System Complements
In my last post about binary signed integers, I introduced the ones complement representation. At the time, I said that the ones complement was found by taking the bitwise complement of the number. My explanation about how to do this was simple: invert each bit, flipping 1 to 0 and vice versa. While it’s true that …
Jan 09 2017
Reason #549 Why Eben Harvey was Awesome
549. He had game. I’m not as good as I once was, but I am as good once as I ever was. This token was found when we were cleaning out his belongings. Apparently he was the silent type, because this is a side of him I never saw.
