Category: Numbers

Someone on Reddit pointed out that today (Dec 22nd) is Ramanujan’s 129th birthday. One of the commenters further pointed out… read more Ramanujan’s 129th Birthday

I had a phone interview for a Python job the other day. It started out really well, he was very… read more Have we already seen this number? (deja vu again)

The number guessing game incorporates several simple but important elements of elementary programming and is a good candidate for an… read more Number guessing game

My favourite tweeter is Clifford A. Pickover. His tweets are delightful nuggets of math, physics & more. I have a copy… read more Playing in Python with Pickover’s Premise per Pi

This is a simple program to compute average heights. In a loop, it prompts the user for heights, inputs a text… read more Compute Average Heights

Binary Search is one of the most fundamental computer algorithms. Given an ordered list of some data (names, numbers, …)… read more Binary Search

This is apparently a well-known interview question (but not one I was ever asked). Print the numbers 1 to 100,… read more FizzBuzz