Monthly Archives: September 2010

Operators, Functions, and Properties – part 26

Posted on 2010/09/26 by

In the previous post in this series, we linked two state machines together, weakly, by arranging to press their Start buttons at the same time and to press their Next buttons at the same time.  As a result, we got … Continue reading →

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Operators, Functions, and Properties – part 25

Posted on 2010/09/21 by

In this series, we’ve looked at operators in various ways.  Recently, we’ve looked at state machines that invoke the same operator repeatedly, and generate a sequence of numbers in doing so.  Conversely, sequences of numbers can often be modeled as … Continue reading →

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Operators, Functions, and Properties – part 24

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In the previous post in this series, we started to model recurrence relationships with state machines: The idea is that we have a device with two buttons and a screen; after we press the Start button, we can press the … Continue reading →

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Operators, Functions, and Properties – part 23

Posted on 2010/09/16 by

In this series, we’ve been looking at operators as something that modifies the state of some machine or device, usually triggered by the pushing of a button.  We’ve looked quite a bit at operators that operate on numbers, for example … Continue reading →

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Groupings, Shopping Lists, and Vectors: The Series

Posted on 2010/09/11 by

This is a series on vector algebra, but it hasn’t wrapped up yet.  Here are the installments as of now: Quantity – Different Kinds of Numbers: Vectors – it really all started with this post.  But I didn’t know it … Continue reading →

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Operators, Functions, and Properties – part 22

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In this series, we’ve lately been modeling a four-function calculator as a state machine.  A state machine moves from state to state based on operators that are invoked through button presses.  Operators  take their input, do something with it, and … Continue reading →

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