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While cleaning out my office today, I found this, which I wrote in 1992:
In the middle 1970's, the IBM corporation did (and perhaps still does) most of their in-house programming in a computer language called FORTRAN. They had a pretty good FORTRAN compiler, called the FORTRAN G compiler. It was fast at translating FORTRAN into machine instructions, and the mac...
(Very much previously: Egyptian Fractions)
Back in March, I had been reading On the Egyptian method of decomposing into unit ...
In 2003 I visited Barcelona and spent all day wandering around the mighty Basilica de la Sagrada Família, the architectural masterpiece of An...
The ancient Egyptians had a terrible notation for fractions. They had notations for for each , for , but everything else was written as a sum of these, with repeats forbidden, so that for example had to be written as . (Wikipedia)
This post presents a little epic to insert static checks in Haskell’s Diff package using Liquid Haskell (LH).