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The quality of an RNG depends on the application (johndcook.com)
2 points by zdw on June 23, 2022 | past
Illegible Work (johndcook.com)
2 points by jseliger on June 19, 2022 | past
Golay Codes (johndcook.com)
5 points by pmoriarty on June 14, 2022 | past | 1 comment
Chemical Element Abbreviation Patterns (johndcook.com)
3 points by zdw on May 17, 2022 | past
Mental Secure Hash Function (johndcook.com)
1 point by blopeur on May 17, 2022 | past | 1 comment
Best Rational Approximation (johndcook.com)
1 point by gballan on April 29, 2022 | past
Regular Expressions and Successive Approximation (johndcook.com)
2 points by RafelMri on April 27, 2022 | past
Logarithms yearning to be free (johndcook.com)
75 points by _Microft on April 13, 2022 | past | 18 comments
Why a Slide Rule Works (johndcook.com)
105 points by zdw on April 11, 2022 | past | 57 comments
How is portable AM radio possible? (johndcook.com)
182 points by _Microft on March 30, 2022 | past | 129 comments
Phone Tones in Musical Notation (johndcook.com)
63 points by zdw on March 14, 2022 | past | 15 comments
What use is mental math in 2022? (johndcook.com)
101 points by ColinWright on Feb 28, 2022 | past | 153 comments
Pi and Poe's the Raven (2014) (johndcook.com)
3 points by ColinWright on Feb 26, 2022 | past
A Bayesian Approach to Pricing (johndcook.com)
2 points by signa11 on Feb 19, 2022 | past
Many hands make more work (johndcook.com)
3 points by ColinWright on Feb 7, 2022 | past | 2 comments
Linear Logic Arithmetic (johndcook.com)
13 points by anthony_romeo on Jan 15, 2022 | past
When do two-body systems have stable Lagrange points? (johndcook.com)
1 point by hackernj on Dec 30, 2021 | past
Branch Cuts and Common Lisp (johndcook.com)
3 points by joelburget on Dec 27, 2021 | past | 1 comment
Error Correcting Code from Octonions (johndcook.com)
3 points by sebg on Dec 21, 2021 | past
Bumblebee Software (johndcook.com)
2 points by nanna on Dec 15, 2021 | past
Fraud, Sloppiness, and Statistics (johndcook.com)
5 points by tacon on Dec 13, 2021 | past
Partial functions and total functions (johndcook.com)
62 points by tacon on Dec 13, 2021 | past | 20 comments
Number Sets in HTML and Unicode (johndcook.com)
2 points by susam on Nov 1, 2021 | past
Extracting independent random bits from dependent sources (2020) (johndcook.com)
1 point by _Microft on Nov 1, 2021 | past
An Interesting Recursion (johndcook.com)
2 points by azhenley on Oct 25, 2021 | past
Gell-Mann amnesia and its opposite (johndcook.com)
45 points by 1cvmask on Oct 19, 2021 | past | 23 comments
Multifactorial (johndcook.com)
3 points by xojoc on Oct 16, 2021 | past
Estimating normal tail extreme probabilities (johndcook.com)
3 points by xojoc on Oct 5, 2021 | past
Sigma Events for T Distributions (johndcook.com)
3 points by xojoc on Oct 4, 2021 | past | 1 comment
Monads and Macros (johndcook.com)
107 points by ColinWright on Oct 1, 2021 | past | 35 comments

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