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Quasi-random Christmas Trees: at the Movies
In Quasi-random Christmas Trees, I applied quasi-random numbers to the decoration of Christmas trees. Quasi-random patterns can be used to arrange ornaments without bunching them together or leaving large blank spaces (problems that typical random numbers can cause). You don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas Trees, Halton Sequence, Math Video, MATLAB, Quasi-random
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Quasi-random Christmas Trees
When I studied mathematical finance at Oxford, one of the classes introduced me to a topic that still fascinates me: quasi-random numbers. Quasi-random numbers differ from the better-known pseudorandom numbers, and not just because of the hyphen. “Quasi” means “almost” while “pseudo” … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas Trees, Halton Sequence, Mathematical Art, MATLAB, Monte Carlo, Pseudorandom, Quasi-random
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The Well-Tempered Spreadsheet 