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Fun with the Dot Product (Math = Patterns)

Imagine this. You have a terribly strong desire to learn as much math as you can. You know that people do research in math, whatever that...

Rectangles in Polar Coordinates

Circles in rectangular coordinates...Rectangles in polar coordinates? This is a bit of a goofy one. Why? Well, I want to figure out...

The Integral of Csc(θ)

What is the integral of cscθ? Usually this is done by telling you to multiply by blah/blah where blah is some expression that comes...

Learning Pygame with Catan (Part 1)

An Intro to Catan Who else here used to play Settlers of Catan as a kid? The first memory I have with the game is happily placing roads...

The Arithmetic Derivative (Part 3)

Let us count The nice thing about the arithmetic derivative is that it takes a natural number to another natural number. This leads to...

The Arithmetic Derivative (Part 1)

An introduction If you've done calculus, then you've talked about differentiation. We usually talk about this in terms of "linear...