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2026

“Right Ho, Jeeves” after Sakioriginal ↗
14 Mar 2026
Tilings with Tetris pieces, and squared Fibonacci numbersoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2026
“tāta” in the Rāmāyaṇaoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2026
Mahabharata text and English translationsoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2026
Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over “heroes”original ↗
14 Jan 2026
Editing a Google Sheet via an app (AppSheet)original ↗
4 Jan 2026

2025

More on shufflesoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2025
Repeated verses in the Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārataoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2025
Dr. Shankar's next-consonant chitrakavyaoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2025
Tom Lehrer's poem: Dissertation on Educationoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2025
AI for writing: unexpected utilityoriginal ↗
17 May 2025
Two ways to crack a walnut, per Grothendieckoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2025

2024

Certifying that M_127 is primeoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2024
The sorry state of terminal support for Indic scripts (on macOS)original ↗
21 Jun 2024
Knuth's program PERFECT-PARTITION-SQUAREoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2024
Checking in with P. G. Wodehouseoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2024
Notes on a translation choiceoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2024
A first-class recitation of the Rāmāyaṇaoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2024

2023

Understanding xii.texoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2023
Using pkfix to fix (some) old TeX-generated PDF (PS) filesoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2023
Mathematical trolling: the Willans prime formulaoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2023
Improving on Percy Ludgate's "Irish logarithm"original ↗
3 Oct 2023
Reverse-engineering the "Irish logarithm"original ↗
2 Oct 2023
Derangements, Dobiński's formula, and their combinationoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2023
Methods for factoring numbers, in the Gaṇita-kaumudī of Nārāyaṇa Paṇḍitaoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2023

2022

The harmonic series, the "prime harmonic series", and their differenceoriginal ↗
24 May 2022

2021

Huffman versus top-down codingoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2021

2020

Manually adding an OCR layer to scanned PDForiginal ↗
12 Sept 2020
Solving the set cover problem: an exampleoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2020
A sequence of integer fractionsoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2020
Producing a "program trace" using GDB and Pythonoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2020
Knuth's programming and problem-solving seminarsoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2020

2019

Jon Bentley's "Programming Pearls" columns, and Van Wyk's "Literate Programming" columns in the CACMoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2019
The Letter-Box (La boîte aux lettres) by René Bazinoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2019
Another blurry image puzzleoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2019
Breaking pillsoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2019
History of Indian mathematics: IIT Gandhinagar (2017)original ↗
1 Oct 2019
The poem in the notepaper used for “Here Comes The Sun”original ↗
1 Oct 2019

2010

Don't mess with a geniusoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2010