• Einstein’s Riddle

  February 4, 2024

  This is a famous riddle: There are five houses lined up next to each other along a street. Each house is a different color, and each homeowner is of a different nationality, drinks a different beverage, smokes a different brand of cigar, and owns a different pet. If these variables can never repeat from house […]

• Dollars and Cents

  January 24, 2021

  With my recent work on the Money Converter Problem Solver, I needed to manipulate money values and was again reminded of one of my pet peeves and that is the misuse of the cent symbol, ¢, which is underused and apparently misunderstood by many. One reason for its under use is the fact that it […]

• Cardinality and Bit Patterns

  January 14, 2021

  We just recently celebrated the feast of Epiphany, but this week I had an epiphany all my own, something I hadn’t realized before. It has to do with math and sets and bit patterns, some of my favorite things, but let me start at the beginning. That’s a very good place to start. Once upon […]