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By Robert Smith All Elementary Functions from a Single Operator is a paper by Andrzej Odrzywołek that has been making rounds on the internet lately, being called everything from a “breakthrough” to “groundbreaking”.

When talking to Lisp programmers, you often hear something like, “adapt Lisp to your problem, not your problem to Lisp.”

By Robert Smith Fabrice Bellard came up with a computationally efficient formula for calculating the nth hexadecimal digit of $\pi$ without calculating any of the previous n−1.

By Robert Smith The Clifford group is an important mathematical group that is foundational to the field of quantum error correction and quantum benchmarking.

By Robert Smith TL;DR: The best way to advertise your favorite programming language is by writing programs.

By Robert Smith Simulating a universal, gate-based quantum computer on a classical computer has many uses and benefits.

By Robert Smith Contents Introduction Computer puzzling without brute-force Taking a step back: puzzles as permutations Brute-force, still ignorant, but kinda smart?

Or, how to calculate the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a complex matrix using a routine that only works on real matrices.

By Robert Smith Between 2010 and 2014, I ran a WordPress blog.