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Two Other MATLABs, in Bangladesh and in Hindi
This post is about the words "Matlab" and "matlab", in upper and lower case, and without a trademark symbol. Matlab with...
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My First Computer, the Burroughs 205 Datatron
The first computer that I seriously used was the Burroughs 205 Datatron. I actually used two different machines, one at...
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How Far Apart Are Two Random Points in a Hypercube?
Two days ago I wrote about random points in a square. At the last minute I added the paragraph asking about the...
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How Far Apart Are Two Random Points in a Square?
How far apart can you expect two points chosen at random in the unit square to be? I found this problem on the YouTube...
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A Logo Zoetrope
A Logo ZoetropeA quick post to point my readers to Ned Gulley's post in MATLAB Community, A Galloping Logo Zoetrope. Don't...
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Brad Efron’s Nontransitive Dice
Do not get involved in a bar bet with Brad Efron and his dice until you have read this....
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C^5, Cleve’s Corner Collection Card Catalog
I have been writing books, programs, newsletter columns and blogs since 1990. I have now collected all of this material...
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Levenshtein Edit Distance Between Strings
How can you measure the distance between two words? How can you find the closest match to a word in a list of words? The...
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Latent Semantic Indexing, SVD, and Zipf’s Law
Latent Semantic Indexing, LSI, uses the Singular Value Decomposition of a term-by-document matrix to represent the...
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What is the Condition Number of a Matrix?
A couple of questions in comments on recent blog posts have prompted me to discuss matrix condition numbers.... read more...
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Householder Seminar HHXX on Numerical Linear Algebra
The Householder meetings on Numerical Linear Algebra have been held roughly every three years since 1961. The twentieth,...
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Hilbert Matrices
I first encountered the Hilbert matrix when I was doing individual studies under Professor John Todd at Caltech in 1960. It...
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Quadruple Precision, 128-bit Floating Point Arithmetic
The floating point arithmetic format that occupies 128 bits of storage is known as binary128 or quadruple precision. This...
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“Half Precision” 16-bit Floating Point Arithmetic
The floating point arithmetic format that requires only 16 bits of storage is becoming increasingly popular. Also known as...
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A Roman Numeral Object, with Arithmetic, Matrices and a Clock
A MATLAB object for arithmetic with Roman numerals provides an example of object oriented programming. I had originally...
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Bank Format and Metric Socket Wrenches
A report about a possible bug in format bank and a visit to a local hardware store made me realize that doing decimal...
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My Erdös Number and My Trump Number
I've long known that my Erdös Number is 3. This means that the length of the path on the graph of academic coauthorship...
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Morse Code, Binary Trees and Graphs
A binary tree is an elegant way to represent and process Morse code. The new MATLAB graph object provides an elegant way to...
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Lake Arrowhead Coauthor Graph Revisited
The Lake Arrowhead Coauthor Graph came out of the Householder XII conference in 1993 at the UCLA conference center in the...
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Hypercubes and Graphs
The adjacency matrix of a hypercube demonstrates the new MATLAB graph object....
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Patience Chinese Rings Puzzle
MIT's Professor Daniel Frey recently introduced me to an ancient mechanical puzzle known as "Chinese Rings", "Patience", or...
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Ulps Plots Reveal Math Function Accuracy
"ULP" stands for "unit in the last place." An ulps plot samples a fundamental math function such as $\sin{x}$, or a more...
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Fitting and Extrapolating US Census Data
A headline in the New York Times at the end of 2016 said "Growth of U.S. Population Is at Slowest Pace Since 1937". This...
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Season’s Greetings Fractal
I don't recall where I found this seasonal fractal. And I can't explain how it works. So please submit a comment if you can...
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My First Matrix, RGB, YIQ, and Color Cubes
When I was in high school in the 1950's, I didn't know anything about matrices. But I nearly encountered one when I wrote a...
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Four Fundamental Subspaces of Linear Algebra, Corrected
(Please replace the erroneous posting from yesterday, Nov. 28, with this corrected version.)...
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Four Fundamental Subspaces of Linear Algebra
Here is a very short course in Linear Algebra. The Singular Value Decomposition provides a natural basis for Gil Strang's...
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My Favorite ODE
My favorite ordinary differential equation provides a good test of ODE solvers, both numeric and symbolic. It also provides...
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Introducing Cleve’s Laboratory
I am launching a project that I call Cleve's Laboratory. My most recent Cleve's Corner column in MathWorks News & Notes...
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Apologies to Gram-Schmidt
This is a follow-up to my previous follow-up, posted several days ago. A very careful reader, Bruno Bazzano, contributed a...
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