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2026 7

  1. Quick post about “rāmābhiṣeke…”
  2. “Right Ho, Jeeves” after Saki
  3. Tilings with Tetris pieces, and squared Fibonacci numbers
  4. “tāta” in the Rāmāyaṇa
  5. Mahabharata text and English translations
  6. Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over “heroes”
  7. Editing a Google Sheet via an app (AppSheet)

2025 6

  1. More on shuffles
  2. Repeated verses in the Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata
  3. Dr. Shankar's next-consonant chitrakavya
  4. Tom Lehrer's poem: Dissertation on Education
  5. AI for writing: unexpected utility
  6. Two ways to crack a walnut, per Grothendieck

2024 6

  1. Certifying that M_127 is prime
  2. The sorry state of terminal support for Indic scripts (on macOS)
  3. Knuth's program PERFECT-PARTITION-SQUARE
  4. Checking in with P. G. Wodehouse
  5. Notes on a translation choice
  6. A first-class recitation of the Rāmāyaṇa

2023 7

  1. Understanding xii.tex
  2. Using pkfix to fix (some) old TeX-generated PDF (PS) files
  3. Mathematical trolling: the Willans prime formula
  4. Improving on Percy Ludgate's "Irish logarithm"
  5. Reverse-engineering the "Irish logarithm"
  6. Derangements, Dobiński's formula, and their combination
  7. Methods for factoring numbers, in the Gaṇita-kaumudī of Nārāyaṇa Paṇḍita

2022 1

  1. The harmonic series, the "prime harmonic series", and their difference

2021 1

  1. Huffman versus top-down coding

2020 5

  1. Manually adding an OCR layer to scanned PDF
  2. Solving the set cover problem: an example
  3. A sequence of integer fractions
  4. Producing a "program trace" using GDB and Python
  5. Knuth's programming and problem-solving seminars

2019 6

  1. Jon Bentley's "Programming Pearls" columns, and Van Wyk's "Literate Programming" columns in the CACM
  2. The Letter-Box (La boîte aux lettres) by René Bazin
  3. Another blurry image puzzle
  4. Breaking pills
  5. History of Indian mathematics: IIT Gandhinagar (2017)
  6. The poem in the notepaper used for “Here Comes The Sun”

2010 1

  1. Don't mess with a genius