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Math & Algorithms

The most popular blog posts about math & algorithms on Hacker News. 10 posts.

1

The Secret of the Fibonacci Sequence in Trees

American Museum of Natural History2011344 points26 commentscited by 4 details

2

Intuitive explication of Fourier Transformation

#AltDevBlogADay2011280 points33 comments details

3

What percentage of people are alive today?

1000Memories Blog2011233 points91 comments details

4

An Introduction to Data Mining

University of Toronto Data Mining2011224 points25 comments details

5

Why floats suck - accurate galaxy-wide coordinates in 128 bits

Facepunch2011205 points83 comments details

6

How to Draw a Circle

Banu Blog2011180 points50 comments details

7

Edsger Dijkstra's note on starting array indices at 0 (pdf, 1982)

UT Austin Computer Science2011160 points76 commentscited by 25 details

8

The Art of Computer Programming (interview with Don Knuth)

BCS2011140 points25 comments details

While he was over in the UK for a book tour and lecture series, Professor Donald Knuth made time to talk to BCS editor Justin Richards about his life.

9

The Mathematics Of Beauty

OkTrends2011109 points5 commentscited by 3 details

10

My baby, the finite state machine (2006)

MSDN Blogs2011106 points17 comments details