Creating art with Grapher

First of all, congratulations if you ever downloaded Grapher: you are now one in a million! Honestly, a number this large had never even crossed my mind back when I was in the exciting process of releasing my very first Android application. After posting on the XDA Forums resulted in a crucial boost, another wave … Continue reading Creating art with Grapher →

Simulating a 7-sided die from a 5-sided die

A.S.: Yep, apparently the singular of 'dice' is 'die'. 😉 A tricky programming task has been floating around the Internet which, as you might have guessed from my attempt at a pragmatic title, can be formalized as follows: Given a function that returns a uniformly random number between 1 and 5 (inclusive), design a function … Continue reading Simulating a 7-sided die from a 5-sided die →

Demonstrating Euler’s formula

If you have ever been taught about complex numbers and you're like me, then the sudden appearance of Euler's number in this seemingly unrelated subject was probably met by surprise. That's why in this post, I aim to bring together several concepts you might not have seen together before. To start off, meet Leonhard Euler's … Continue reading Demonstrating Euler’s formula →