I wrote a little bit of code to brute force disprove the Euler proposition that states: a4+b4+c4=d4 has no solution when a, b, c, d are positive integers. I’m no mathematician, but reading around this, at least one solution was found by Noam Elkies in 1987 (a = 95800; b = 217519; c = 414560; … Read more
I’m implementing Dijkstra’s algorithm with a priority queue for a game I’m developing in Unity with C#. I was a bit disappointed with the performance, so I decided to port the code to C++ and see if the performance was related to the language or the algorithm itself. The path finding searches through a 3D … Read more
We’re calculating entropy of a string a few places in Stack Overflow as a signifier of low quality. I whipped up this simple method which counts unique characters in a string, but it is quite literally the first thing that popped into my head. It’s the “dumbest thing that works”. /// <summary> /// returns the … Read more
