by Brian Hayes
Published 22 October 2007
When is a tree (large, woody plant) not a tree (connected acyclic graph)?
This has something or other to do with the topic of the previous post.
(The tree (?) is a crepe myrtle near the campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh.)
First publication: 22 October 2007
Converted to Eleventy framework: 22 April 2025
Pick a number, N, then try searching for it on the web via Bing or Google (or maybe the leet version of Google).
Exploring a computer model I’ve known for decades, I come face to face with some things I know that ain’t so.
Between the prime numbers 59 and 61 lies 60, which has an extraordinary abundance of divisors. Is that just a coincidence?
With my mind out of gear I free-associate: Mrs. Robinson, Joe Dimaggio, plastics, butterflies. What would it take to build a computational model of this process?