https://www.hillelwayne.com/categories/math/ Recent content in Math on Hillel Wayne Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/indiana-pi-bill/ Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/indiana-pi-bill/ I originally ran this on my newsletter last year but I like it way too much to let it rot in the archives. Enjoy! Happy Pi Day!1 To celebrate I want to get away from software for a bit and talk about something special. You may have heard the story that the Indiana legislature tried to change the value of π, to something like 3 or 4 or 3.15 or something like that. https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/divide-by-zero/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/divide-by-zero/ Have a tweet: img {border-style: groove;} I have no idea if Pony is making the right choice here, I don’t know Pony, and I don’t have any interest in learning Pony.1 But this tweet raised my hackles for two reasons: It’s pretty smug. I have very strong opinions about programming, but one rule I try to follow is do not mock other programmers.2 Programming is too big and I’m too small to understand everything.