Author Archives: ErkDemon
In the story, an Emperor asks his mathematician to solve a difficult problem.In payment, the mathematician asks for a chessboard with one grain of rice on the first square, two on the next, four on the one after that, eight on the next, and so on. The …
Ten Things you can’t do on an Apple iPad:Watch broadcast TVThe iPad has nowhere to plug in a DVB TV tuner dongle, and even if if it had, the iPad doesn’t decode the MPEG2 video format used for standard-format DVB digital tv broadcasts. It’s MPEG4-…
Ten Things you can’t do on an Apple iPad:Watch broadcast TVThe iPad has nowhere to plug in a DVB TV tuner dongle, and even if if it had, the iPad doesn’t decode the MPEG2 video format used for standard-format DVB digital tv broadcasts. It’s MPEG4-…
This is the nice design that I used on page 2 of the book.Annoyingly, rather a lot of other people discovered it before me: it’s indexed on Wikipedia as the Apollonian Net, after Apollonius of Perga (~262 BC – ~190 BC), and it’s also referred…
This is the nice design that I used on page 2 of the book.Annoyingly, rather a lot of other people discovered it before me: it’s indexed on Wikipedia as the Apollonian Net, after Apollonius of Perga (~262 BC – ~190 BC), and it’s also referred…
The “jitter” method (earlier post) can also be used for ultra-high-resolution photography. People want higher-resolution cameras, but the output resolution of a camera is usually limited by the number of pixels in its sensor. Some digital cameras h…
The “jitter” method (earlier post) can also be used for ultra-high-resolution photography. People want higher-resolution cameras, but the output resolution of a camera is usually limited by the number of pixels in its sensor. Some digital cameras h…
On the 10th of April 1912, the RMS Titanic set out on her first passenger-carrying voyage. The Titanic (and her Olympic-class sister-ships were state-of-the-art. They had a double-hulled design that meant that if one hull ruptured, the ship w…
On the 10th of April 1912, the RMS Titanic set out on her first passenger-carrying voyage. The Titanic (and her Olympic-class sister-ships were state-of-the-art. They had a double-hulled design that meant that if one hull ruptured, the ship w…
With Einstein’s general theory of relativity, one of the theory’s harshest critics was probably Einstein himself. This was partly a matter of personal discipline, and partly – like the joke about sausages – because it’s sometimes easier to like a t…
