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Coming Soon
Articles currently in the pipe, to be published soon: When should you add the cream to the coffee? An age-old controversy. Random numbers and Monte Carlo simulation. How does a computer pick random numbers from different distributions? How random are they? Edison and the elevators: The AC/DC wars and elevators
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What’s this blog about?
A glance at a couple of posts will show that there are a lot of equations in these posts. I know that a lot of people are kind of triggered by math and might have an automatic fight-or-flight response on seeing an equation. When I write something here it’s because I thought, “hey, isn’t it…
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Why Terra-Phy?
Why did I decide to add my voice to the trillions (OK, maybe it’s only tens of billions) of blogs that are already out there? Mainly because I was already writing. I’m a math / physics guy (now retired) and I like to answer questions, these days mostly on the educational math and physics subreddits…
Terra Physicae Mathematicaeque (Terra-Phy) 