If you store GPS coordinates as 32-bit floats, your precision in Iowa is about two feet. In central London the precision drops to half a millimeter, and at the South Pole it’s about a trillion times finer than the Planck Length. Floating point types are … Continue reading A Curious Property of Floating Point Geospatial Coordinates
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A Silver Cube of Order 11 (and 13) (and 19, 31, 37…)
Way back in 2007, I got my first taste of mathematical research. I was in an REU at the University of West Georgia run by Professors Bruce Landman and Abdollah Khodkar. They taught us some basics of graph theory and Ramsey theory, and then presented … Continue reading A Silver Cube of Order 11 (and 13) (and 19, 31, 37…)
Kevin Ventullo 