Now, I am famous ! ...... my game Pygame Toss has been published in famouswhy ..... I would guess it is the simplicity of the game than its achievements , that makes it 'famous' !
Fig 1. I am famous !
REFERENCES
(1) Pygame Toss
Sunday, September 20, 2009
I AM FAMOUS !
GOING PLACES ..... AGAIN !
Now, I am famous ! ...... my game Pygame Toss has been published in famouswhy ..... I would guess it is the simplicity of the game than its achievements , that makes it 'famous' !
REFERENCES
(1) Pygame Toss
Now, I am famous ! ...... my game Pygame Toss has been published in famouswhy ..... I would guess it is the simplicity of the game than its achievements , that makes it 'famous' !
REFERENCES
(1) Pygame Toss
Saturday, September 19, 2009
VISUAL PYTHON
VPYTHON - FIRST PROGRAM !
Trying out visual python (version 5.12) came rather easy.
My first program was mere 2 lines and I could do a fair deal with that.
My first program was mere 2 lines and I could do a fair deal with that.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
AN ODE TO 'pi'
3.141592653589793......
The ratio of circumference to diameter, may be no other number has intrigued and troubled mathematicians any more. The Bible puts pi as 3 ..... while many fanatics have spend the prime of their lives computing the 'little' that lies beyond 3 ... Ludolph van Ceulen from Leiden is sure worth a mention .... and he took the 35 digits of his computation to his tombstone after his death in 1610 ..... the exoticism of pi doesn't end here ..... and Feynman point is another interesting aspect of the unending digits of pi....
It must be appreciated that pi is not just another constant .....and is far from the likes of physical constants as G,h and c ..... and is also distinctly different from root 2, gamma, e and iota .... the physical constants are structured by the physical theory and are found to vary with time..... while e, iota, gamma etc can be said to be product of our chosen number system and the bias of our prevalent mathematical structure ....... while, pi is engraved in mother nature ..... it is ubiquitous and omnipresent .... pi enunciates why every circle mimics every other circle .... and so is true for every sphere..... Various physical theories as electrostatics, fluid-dynamics and gravitation have confirmed the presence of pi in their formulation , i.e: Stokes Equation, Gauss's Law, Kepler's law .....
The only other constant which may compete for similar prominence is phi , though phi is more subtle and not really as often visible as pi .... well..... I must stop with these rhetorics ... and get to business ...... 2 python recursions (1) Ramanujan's formulation (2) Wallis Product.
(1) Ramanujan's formulation
One of the most exotic and 'very fast converging' series for computing pi was given by Ramanujan...
A corresponding python program is ....
Fig 1. piramanujan.py
The program gives very accurate value of pi (3.14159265381), however the limit of recursion is reached in about 20 terms ...
(2) Wallis Product
An evaluation of pi in a 'product' form of an infinite series was given by English mathematician John Wallis.
The python program is ....
Fig 2. piwallis.py
The limit of recursion is at about 995 terms .
Though life can be made much easier ... away from these recursions by importing pi from math .....
Fig 2. pisimple.py
It must be appreciated that pi is not just another constant .....and is far from the likes of physical constants as G,h and c ..... and is also distinctly different from root 2, gamma, e and iota .... the physical constants are structured by the physical theory and are found to vary with time..... while e, iota, gamma etc can be said to be product of our chosen number system and the bias of our prevalent mathematical structure ....... while, pi is engraved in mother nature ..... it is ubiquitous and omnipresent .... pi enunciates why every circle mimics every other circle .... and so is true for every sphere..... Various physical theories as electrostatics, fluid-dynamics and gravitation have confirmed the presence of pi in their formulation , i.e: Stokes Equation, Gauss's Law, Kepler's law .....
The only other constant which may compete for similar prominence is phi , though phi is more subtle and not really as often visible as pi .... well..... I must stop with these rhetorics ... and get to business ...... 2 python recursions (1) Ramanujan's formulation (2) Wallis Product.
(1) Ramanujan's formulation
One of the most exotic and 'very fast converging' series for computing pi was given by Ramanujan...
A corresponding python program is ....
Fig 1. piramanujan.py The program gives very accurate value of pi (3.14159265381), however the limit of recursion is reached in about 20 terms ...
(2) Wallis Product
An evaluation of pi in a 'product' form of an infinite series was given by English mathematician John Wallis.
The python program is ....
Fig 2. piwallis.py The limit of recursion is at about 995 terms .
Though life can be made much easier ... away from these recursions by importing pi from math .....
Fig 2. pisimple.py Wednesday, September 16, 2009
PYTHON RECURSIONS FOR 'pi' AND 'e'
FROM THE BASEL PROBLEM
Using this result to obtain a recursion for pi in Python !
Pic 1. pi.py
REFERENCES
(1) Recursive functions for phi and root two
(2) Other pi recursions in Python
The problem which put Euler on the path of immortality was the BASEL PROBLEM solved in 1735, 91 years since it was proposed . Succinctly put Euler's proof was ;
Using this result to obtain a recursion for pi in Python !
Pic 1. pi.pyAt 500 terms the result is 3.13968..... not too far from the sinister 3.1415.....The recursions are good till about 995 terms (3.14063326091) after which one comes across .... RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded
Similar programs may be devised on more series as given by Euler, as .....
RECURSIONS FOR e
e the base of natural logarithm is yet another important constant in mathematics .... and once again related to Euler .....
A python program on this recursion is designed via the factorial function ....
Pic 2. e.py
A python program on this recursion is designed via the factorial function ....
Pic 2. e.pyThe limit of recursion is around n = 170 which yields a very accurate value of e.
Thus in a nutshell .....
Thus in a nutshell .....
"Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all."
-- Pierre-Simon Laplace
REFERENCES
(1) Recursive functions for phi and root two
(2) Other pi recursions in Python
STARRY THINGS !
ONCE UPON A STAR LIT SKY
I discuss 2 programs which try to mimic stars in the sky.
Program 1 (stars.py)
This program comes along with examples in the official pygame package , very nice introductory example. With every mouse click the supposed center of the screen moves to that point. Creates a good illusion and can be used as the start-up for further futuristic starry games and animations.
Program 2 (parallaxstars.py)
I came across this example from Chapter 8 of Will's book, this example creates an illusion that the stars close to the observer are moving faster than those in the background, unlike last example ... a mouse click does no good to the program ! once again a good program and can be used as background for futuristic games.
I discuss 2 programs which try to mimic stars in the sky.
Program 1 (stars.py)
This program comes along with examples in the official pygame package , very nice introductory example. With every mouse click the supposed center of the screen moves to that point. Creates a good illusion and can be used as the start-up for further futuristic starry games and animations.
Video 1. Program 1
Program 2 (parallaxstars.py)
I came across this example from Chapter 8 of Will's book, this example creates an illusion that the stars close to the observer are moving faster than those in the background, unlike last example ... a mouse click does no good to the program ! once again a good program and can be used as background for futuristic games.
Video 2. Program 2
It is worth nothing that both these Pygame GUI's generate random stars and does not use any images to blit the screen.
Monday, September 7, 2009
CODEPAD
....AND THEN THERE WERE ALL ..... !
Other than Netbeans, Scite and Eclipse there is hardly another IDE which supports a wide array of languages
! VOILA ! ..... CODEPAD ..... AN ONLINE COMPILER / INTERPRETER FOR 12 LANGUAGES
Python works cool , but lacks the interpreter mode. Another online interpreter specifically for Python is Try Python which preserves the Python Chevron (>>>) and is in the interpreter mode. Zamplizer is another multi-lingual online platform.
Fig 1. The pad of codepad
Fig 2. Simple Ruby code in codepad
! VOILA ! ..... CODEPAD ..... AN ONLINE COMPILER / INTERPRETER FOR 12 LANGUAGES
Python works cool , but lacks the interpreter mode. Another online interpreter specifically for Python is Try Python which preserves the Python Chevron (>>>) and is in the interpreter mode. Zamplizer is another multi-lingual online platform.
Fig 1. The pad of codepad
Fig 2. Simple Ruby code in codepadSunday, September 6, 2009
FERMAT'S LAST THEOREM !
FERMAT'S LAST THEOREM !
Write a function named check_fermat that takes four parameters — a, b, c and n — and that checks to see if Fermat’s theorem holds.
Fig 1. Fermat's last Theorem
Fig 2. Python Code for check_fermat
Allen Downey in his book Think Python poses the reader with a problem !
Write a function named check_fermat that takes four parameters — a, b, c and n — and that checks to see if Fermat’s theorem holds.
Fig 1. Fermat's last TheoremA suitable program may be made as;
Fig 2. Python Code for check_fermatHowever, it must be noted that this sort of treatment may never form some basis of an alternative proof of Fermat's last Theorem, which was the holy grail of mathematics till 1995 when Andrew Wiles established the proof for the 358 year old puzzle.
REFERENCES
(1) Simon Singh
REFERENCES
(1) Simon Singh
PALINDROMES !
PALINDROMES !
A simple program to check for palindromes .
Fig 1. The code for palindrome check
Fig 2. Sample output
A simple program to check for palindromes .
Fig 1. The code for palindrome check
Fig 2. Sample output
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