Zeller Congruence (The Program)

This entry is part 3 of 13 in the series Zellers Algorithm

Now that we know that the algorithm works we can know build a solution We will start by adding code to perform the calculation for this we will need to import the Python math module so that we can use the built in floor function. We will also have to take into account the months …
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Zeller’s Congruence (The Algorithm)

This entry is part 2 of 13 in the series Zellers Algorithm

When I started college in 1998, I was studying A-Level mathematics and was introduced to Zeller’s Algorithm. When I then started studying programming I though this would be a great algorithm to turn into a program(that program can be found here). I have been thinking about projects which I wish to put up on this …
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Collatz Conjecture (The Code)

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Collatz Conjecture

In the This program just returns the value for a single value so we need to wirte an extra function to get the sequence: The code above adds the values in the sequence to an array and then prints simply prints the array to the screen, running the code above produces the following output: This …
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Collatz Conjecture (The Math)

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Collatz Conjecture

I was watching one of my favourite youtube channels Numberphile and came across a video which for convenience i have embedded into this post on the Collatz Conjecture. The Collatz Conjecture is named for Lothar Collatz who introduced the idea in 1937. It is a simple sequence which is defined as: This may look a …
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