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Comment Re:Obscure dates/times, too (Score 2) 48

by leob on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @12:55PM (#44425347) Attached to: 22nd International Obfuscated C Code Contest Starts Thursday 1 Aug 2013

Retrospectively,
Aug. 1 is the birthday of Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician, author of The enjoyment of mathematics. Selections from mathematics for the amateur (with Hans Rademacher).
Oct. 3 is the day Edouard Lucas, French mathematician, known for his study of the Fibonacci sequence, died.

Comment Re:Significance of the times (Score 1) 23

by leob on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @04:18AM (#40746583) Attached to: The 21st IOCCC Has Been Announced

pi = 3.141592653...

Submission + - The 21st IOCCC has been announced (ioccc.org)

Submitted by leob on Sunday July 22, 2012 @11:29PM

leob writes: As promised at the end of the 20th IOCCC earlier this year, the 21st International Obfuscated C Code Contest will accept entries from 2012-Aug-15 03:14:15 UTC to 2012-Sep-14 09:26:53 UTC. The earliest announcement about the next contest was on Twitter on July 13, giving the interested parties more than 2 months to polish their entries.

Comment Anonymous-shmanonymous (Score 2) 175

by leob on Sunday October 16, 2011 @02:47AM (#37728722) Attached to: DNA Sequenced of Woman Who Lived To 115

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrikje_van_Andel-Schipper#Genome

Comment It's clearly a seisure! (Score 1) 594

by leob on Sunday May 10, 2009 @04:13PM (#27899157) Attached to: Warrantless GPS Tracking Is Legal, Says WI Court

Adding weight to the car reduced gas mileage, thus it is a fuel seisure. The amount may be negligible, but the question is, is it reasonable?

Submission + - Researchers create 'rubbery metal'

Submitted by Space_donkey on Monday July 23, 2007 @04:26PM

Space_donkey writes: Researchers at Virginia Tech have developed a new type of metal that also has the vibration-dampening properties of rubber. That's according to a patent filing discovered by New Scientist. Ultimately, it might be used in aircraft engines and other systems that experience a lot of vibration. In the shorter-term it could also be seen in sports equipment such as tennis rackets and baseball bats.

Submission + - Advertising on WIkipedia?

Submitted by on Wednesday January 03, 2007 @02:01AM

An anonymous reader writes: Some Wikipedians have objected to Virgin Unite's participation in the Wikimedia Foundation's fund drive, calling it adverising. But there's a strong case that Wikipedia should run advertising. The funds raised could support dozens of Firefox-scale free knowledge and free software projects, outspending all but the wealthiest foundations.

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by vmaz on Wednesday January 03, 2007 @12:38AM

Submission + - IOCCC 2006 is now open

Submitted by leob on Wednesday January 03, 2007 @12:35AM

leob writes: The 19th International Obfuscated C Code Contest opens one minute before the New Year to qualify for the 2006 designation. Entries accepted until the end of February. Start writing and submitting your entries now!

Submission + - Classical Chinese Combinatorics

Submitted by h9xh9xh9x on Saturday December 23, 2006 @12:06PM

h9xh9xh9x writes: A computational linguist in a federally-funded research project at UC Berkeley has solved a 3,000 year-old mystery, in a new book entitled Classical Chinese Combinatorics. A mathematical proof found hidden in an ancient Chinese text shows how the Chinese invented binary mathematics 600 years before the time of Euclid.

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