Take a collection of real-world data such as the lengths of all rivers in the world, the populations of counties in the United States, the net worths of American corporations, or the street addresses of all residents of Detroit. Strip away all the information except the leading digits. What percentage of these digits do you…
Tag: irrational rotation
Three cool facts about rotations of the circle
I was playing around with GeoGebra and made this applet about one of the simplest, but most intersting dynamical systems: the rigid rotation of a circle. Let me tell you a little about this fascinating subject. Let denote a circle. For simplicity, let’s think of it as a circle with circumference 1. Let be any…
David Richeson: Division by Zero 