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31.

Nobody’s going to steal your idea

14 years ago

171 points

32.

How to make a Smith chart

8 months ago

169 points

33.

The Soviet license plate game and Kolmogorov complexity

7 years ago

168 points

34.

Every factorial approximates a power

3 years ago

164 points

35.

Evaluating a class of infinite sums in closed form

2 years ago

160 points

36.

The longer it has taken, the longer it will take (2015)

7 years ago

159 points

37.

Experts often end up where they started as beginners

15 years ago

159 points

38.

How Thomas Jefferson prepared for meetings

15 years ago

159 points

39.

Surprises from numerical linear algebra (2010)

15 years ago

155 points

40.

14 years ago

150 points

41.

Writes large correct programs (2008)

2 years ago

148 points

42.

The quadratic formula and low-precision arithmetic

8 years ago

147 points

43.

Math library functions that seem unnecessary

16 years ago

147 points

44.

Why Mathematica does not simplify sinh(arccosh(x))

3 months ago

144 points

45.

A quiet change to RSA

9 months ago

144 points

46.

What is an elliptic curve? (2019)

6 months ago

139 points

47.

A triangle whose interior angles sum to zero

7 months ago

136 points

48.

Gravitational attraction of stars and cows

8 years ago

135 points

49.

Circulant Matrices, Eigenvectors, and the FFT

3 years ago

134 points

50.

Don’t invert that matrix (2010)

10 years ago

133 points

51.

Ramanujan Factorial Approximation (2012)

4 years ago

133 points

52.

Evolution of Random Number Generators

5 years ago

131 points

53.

Tofolli gates are all you need

2 months ago

129 points

54.

The plumber programmer

15 years ago

125 points

55.

Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (2009)

15 years ago

123 points

56.

Floating point oddity

7 years ago

122 points

57.

The Buenos Aires Constant

a year ago

121 points

58.

Python for Data Analysis

14 years ago

120 points

59.

How medieval astronomers made trig tables

12 years ago

119 points

60.

What is the point of a public key fingerprint?

3 years ago

114 points