[All code from this post available as a GitHub gist here] For Christmas this year, I got myself a fun mathematical gift: a set of 10 non-transitive dice, namely Grime Dice! You can get your own set here. Behold their dicey splendor: These dice possess the[...]

A while back I came upon a seemingly not-too-difficult programming exercise: Define a recurrence  by Compute . This isn't too hard to code up, using perhaps a recursive function to represent . With normal double-precision floats, as increases, the result [...]