Recreational Math

Unlimited Precision Arithmetic

As far as I can remember I've been fascinated by number theory. Then fractals. Later I developed an interest in another abstract topic, unlimited precision arithmetic or bignums. For years I kept a copy of Knuth's Seminumerical Algorithms on my car's dashboard to peruse at odd times. I found it relaxing to read about such arcane topics as cyclic and negacyclic convolutions for multiplication after a hard day of coding.

I haunted the Carey Bloodworth site that provided accessible coverage of bignums to a non-mathematician such as me. I mirrored the site so that I could peruse it when I was off-line. Then it went dark. www.bloodworth.org is registered until 2024 according to whois but it seems "unhosted." So for fellow afficianados of bignums I have provided the source code to the multiplication demos from his site. Eventually I hope to provide the mirrored content from his site.

Multiplication Demo Source Files

An Elegant But Obscure Program to Compute Mersenne 40

I chanced upon this elegant gem while on one of my endless searches for obscure code. I'm no mathematician but have a passion for code like this. My fellow programmers were appalled at its lack of comments and readability but something about it appeals to me. Computing Mersenne 40

Cool Math Links

Dan's MIX Simulator and MIXAL compiler[broken link]
Getting started with MIX and MIXAL
Name of a Number
GIMPS Home
The Prime Pages (prime number research, records and resources)

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