May 2010

Did you know you can use CCalc to derive pi?  Of course CCalc already includes the variable “pi” which is accurate to 100+ decimal places, but what fun is there in that?  We will use the infinite series discovered by 14th century mathematician and astronomer Madhava of Sangamagrama.  The first Read more…

I was motivated recently to get one of my favorite softwares, Sublime Text, running on OS X using Wine, which can run many Windows programs on other platforms, such as Linux or OS X. I became aware of Wine Bottler, which makes it super easy get Wine running on OS Read more…