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Archive for November, 2007

The Factor Attraction

Posted in General, programming, factor on Nov 23rd, 2007 5 Comments »

It’s been a couple of months and I’m still slower writing code in Factor than in Python or Scheme. So why am I still writing code in Factor? Well it turns out that the problem is also the attraction:
You can’t hack in factor.
In python you can hack out code in multi-line functions, parking results […]

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An intuitive guide to exponential functions & e

Posted in General, workfriendly, maths, math on Nov 22nd, 2007 1 Comment »

Stumbled on this intuitive explanation of ‘e’ via a reddit comment today. Absolute internet solid gold - this is the first time I’ve actually understood exponential functions rather than just plugging ‘e’ into a formula.
The rest of the better explained site looks promising too!

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