John D'Errico

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A retired applied mathematician, consultant, sometime mechanical engineer, numerical analyst, woodworker, bridge player. Please DON'T contact me, as too many students then decide I am their personal consultant if I allow it. I won't do consulting by mail.

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Little Fermat, a valuable tool for primality testing
In a previous discussion, https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/discussions/tips/884294-oh-no-isprime-is-missing-just-kidding...

etwa ein Monat vor | 0

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What is an emirp? Can we find a new world record size prime of this form, using only MATLAB, and a home computer?
An emirp is a prime that is prime when viewed in in both directions. They are not too difficult to find at a lower level. For ex...

etwa ein Monat vor | 0

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OH NO! isprime is missing? (Just kidding)
What if you had no isprime utility to rely on in MATLAB? How would you identify a number as prime? An easy answer might be some...

7 Monate vor | 0

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Approximating a floating point number with a finite representation in decimal form
I saw an interesting problem on a reddit math forum today. The question was to find a number (x) as close as possible to r=3.6, ...

7 Monate vor | 0

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Primes and rough numbers, use of MOD as a large scale test to exclude composite numbers
The GCD approach to identify rough numbers is a terribly useful one, well worth remembering. But at some point, I expect someo...

etwa ein Jahr vor | 2

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Primes and rough numbers, using GCD as a test for roughness to exclude composite numbers
Yes, some readers might now argue that I used roughness in a crazy way in my last post, in my approach to finding a large twin...

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Primes and rough numbers, used constructively to search for large primes
How can we use roughness in an effective context to identify large primes? I can quickly think of quite a few examples where w...

etwa ein Jahr vor | 4

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Primes and Rough Numbers, Basic ideas
What is a rough number? What can they be used for? Today I'll take you down a journey into the land of prime numbers (in MATLA...

etwa ein Jahr vor | 7

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Answers not displaying symbolic results? FIXED
syms u v atan2alt(v,u) function Z = atan2alt(V,U) % extension of atan2(V,U) into the complex plane Z = -1i*log((U+1i*V)....

mehr als ein Jahr vor | 2

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Using graphs to learn about Kaprekar constant(s)
D.R. Kaprekar was a self taught recreational mathematician, perhaps known mostly for some numbers that bear his name. Today, I...

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Using MATLAB to find a generative equation for a sequence
This stems purely from some play on my part. Suppose I asked you to work with the sequence formed as 2*n*F_n + 1, where F_n is t...

mehr als ein Jahr vor | 8

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Should the AI apply to all questions posted on Answers?
I saw this post on Answers. https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/2046770-explaining-a-matlab-code/?s_tid=ans_lp_feed...

mehr als 2 Jahre vor | 3

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linprog failed to work. why? Did I do something wrong?
I've now seen linear programming questions pop up on Answers recently, with some common failure modes for linprog that people se...

mehr als 3 Jahre vor | 1

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Counting the passengers on a train: solving a basic problem using MATLAB
I saw this problem online recently. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rbozrj9poo Passenger distribution on a train> Not a...

etwa 4 Jahre vor | 8