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John D. Cook

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Golden iteration

Just change the key

Rolling n-sided dice to get at least n

Weak derivatives

Fourier transform of a Fourier series

Fourier transform of a flat line

Obscuring P2P nodes with Dandelion

What is a Pedersen commitment?

Solving spherical triangles

The Navigational Triangle

Line of position (LOP)

Lewis & Clark geolocation

Zero knowlege proof of compositeness

Monero subaddresses

A triangle whose interior angles sum to zero

A circle in the hyperbolic plane

Equal things that don’t look equal

Hyperbolic metric

TV tuned to a dead channel

How stealth addresses work in Monero

Weddle integration rule

Solving H_n = 100

Closest harmonic number to an integer

Closest consecutive reciprocal sum to an integer

Pythagorean triples

RSA as a pairing

Three-party Diffie-Hellman in one shot

Elliptic curve pairings in cryptography

Adding an imaginary unit to a finite field

Four generalizations of the Pythagorean theorem

Elementary symmetric polynomials and optimization

Weighting an average to minimize variance

Brownian motion and Riemann zeta

Rolling correlation

Analog of Heron’s formula on a sphere

How much is a gigawatt?

Japanese polygon theorem

Tetrahedral analog of the Pythagorean theorem

The anti-Smith chart

Impedance and Trianglular Numbers

Cross ratio

Text case changes the size of QR codes

An ancient generalization of the Pythagorean theorem

Mentally compute logs base 2

Physical Keys and Encryption Keys

Freshman’s dream

Why and how Bitcoin uses Merkle trees

How blocks are chained in a blockchain

987654321 / 123456789

Spacing the circles on the Smith chart

The Smith chart

Generating random points in Colorado

Random spherical coordinates

Distribution of correlation

Distribution of coordinates on a sphere

ODE to Fisher’s transform

Quality metrics

Turning trig identities into Fibonacci identities

Experiences with GPT-5-Codex

Ethereum’s consensus layer elliptic curve

Inverting matrices and bilinear functions

Generate random points inside a sphere

Random samples from a tetrahedron

GPT-5 for AI-assisted discovery

More on Carmichael

Differential equation on a doughnut

Zcash price doubled

RSA with multiple primes

True growth rate accounting for inflation

A quiet change to RSA

Fermat primes and tangent numbers

Memorizing a list of seed words

10x vs 10%

Time needed to factor large integers

log log x

Fitting a double exponential function to three points

Extrapolating quantum factoring

Post-quantum RSA with gargantuan keys

Conway’s pinwheel tiling

Silent Payments

An inverse problem for the quadratic equation

Inverting series that are flat at zero

Mollweide map projection and Newton’s method

1420 MHz

The AI fork in the road

Day of the week centuries from now

Learning languages with the help of algorithms

Mental math posts

Morse code beyond the solar system

Cycles in Marsaglia’s mental RNG

Monero’s seed phrase words

Area of the unit disk after a Möbius transformation

More triangle inequalities

Area of unit disk under a univalent function

Random samples from a polygon

A triangle inequality by Erdős

Randomly selecting points inside a triangle

A mental random number generator

New symbols in Unicode 17

Mandelbrot and Fat Tails

Bech32 encoding

Inferring sample size from confidence interval