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I can hear you…

Meet my one and only, ominous looking…

Sound Reflector
Sound reflector!

With this amazing piece of equipment, I can listen to your footsteps from across an entire field, I can eavesdrop on conversations, so you better not say anything bad about me! [...]

Fourier Series – very basics

I don’t pretend to be an expert on Fourier Series, but I did find it interesting when just knowing the basics allowed me to prove an interesting statement. This is the 1st of 3 parts of the proof. It is therefore essential to know a few things about Fourier Series. This first part introduces the idea of fourier series.

My ‘Complex Argument’ to arguments of complex numbers

After some lengthy discussions on the solution to arg(z) = arg(z -1 + i) I decided to come up with a ‘simple’ explanation on how to get the answer. You decide whether it’s simple. I think it is. Here it is – The arguments of arguments.

Sorting algorithms

Given a set of let’s say, 20 numbers, and you’re asked to arrange them from the least to the greatest. Here is the “bubble sort” and “shuttle sort”, two algorithms which will arrange them in order. Needless to say, you should not need to use them, but they can be interesting.

[EDIT : Ooh, discovered that the site layout breaks in IE because of some silly bug when viewing this post. Sorted that now. Phew. Irritating IE]

Maths?

Testing MathML on the site. Hopefully it works.

Spaceland?

First of all.. thanks all of you guys who contributed to that card… thanks a lot… It was really nice.. and I guess… the most thanks to my family! I’ve just finished reading ‘Flatland’ by Edwin Abbott… if you want to read it, go to THIS LINK It’s quite an interesting story of the land [...]

PETRONAS TTWWIINN towers..

Sweet eh? I graphed the twin towers in 10 minutes… using 4 nCr functions and 1 sin function. A good way to waste time (PS!! This was done last term) Got stats exam on Tuesday… then….. freed… er. Nope. Not freedom. Got to do lots of piano practice for coming concerts. But it still should [...]

Sound, sond, son, so, ssss…

There was supposed to be a PA training (apprenticeship) session in church today during the service, so I went up to the AV room, ready for it, and then guess what? Our trainer didn’t turn up for the whole service! Wonder what happened to him…weird…So I just stayed up there, assisting a bit, giving some [...]