It was my birthday this week so I got to thinking about one of my old Pascal Programs which was a program that used Zellers Algorithm or Congruence to calculate the day of the week from a given date. In this post all I wanted was to share my old Pascal program. In my next …
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Prime Numbers
Anyone that has studied secondary school mathematics knows what a prime number is but just to recap the definition of a prime number is any number which is only divisible by 1 and itself. 1 is however not a prime number as it is only divisible by itself, and other than 2 all prime numbers …
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Is Odd? or is Even?
In my last post I wrote a program to print the Collatz Conjecture for a particular number. In this program I had to check if the number is odd or not(even). For my next program I will need to do this check again so I have decided to write a very short function to check …
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Collatz Conjecture (The Code)
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)
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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Element 14 Presents
Absolutely loved The Ben Heck Show. Sad that Ben is actually leaving but glad the channel is continuing.
The 8-Bit Guy
Absolutely love The 8-Bit guys channel on YouTube. If you like retro computing check it out.
2018
I won’t say it this year so don’t worry. I’m not going to promise to blog more, I always do and never get around to it. 2017 was a mixed year. That’s all I can say. In October I started studying for my degree with the Open University and so far it is going well. …
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Version 2
Just over 4 years ago I started a blender recreation of the Enterprise D bridge. I had made quite a bit of progress to it but never finished it. I have today started again on this endeavor(Not the Nebula class starship). The First prop is coming along nicely.
Fresh Starts
With a new year starting and the old one behind, I can not help but ponder what the year to come has inshore for me. 2016 brought with it many changes. I left a church which I had been Baptised and Married at but sadly where there was a deep ingrained culture of bullying and …
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