Ned Batchelder
Math factoid of the day: 56
16 June
56 is the sum of six consecutive primes (3 + 5 + 7 + 11 + 13 + 17), and is a pronic number, being the product of two consecutive numbers (7 × 8). » more..
PyCon 2018
16 May
PyCon 2018 is over, and of course I enjoyed the hell out of it. I tweeted a bit this year, so I’ll tell the story partly with tweets. » more..
Money for cotton candy
8 May
My autistic son Nat did something last weekend that got my attention. It’s going to seem like a small thing, and in some ways it is a small thing. » more..
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Code
software I made
- Aptus ·· a Mandelbrot set explorer
- coverage.py ·· for measuring Python code coverage
- hyphenate ·· for hyphenating words with the Liang/Knuth algorithm
Text
words I wrote
- Pragmatic Unicode ·· how to stop the pain
- Python Names and Values ·· how assignment works
- Kindling projects ·· small projects for new programmers