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APPROXIMATING AN ELLIPSE WITH FOUR CIRCULAR ARCS
(ProQuest: ... denotes formula omitted.) 1. INTRODUCTION This material uses only precalculus mathematics and is suitable for courses in geometry,...
Mathematics and Computer Education, 10/01/08 by Chandrupatla, Tirupathi R; Osler, Thomas J · More from publication -
A classroom note on: An easy look at the cubic formula
REFERENCES 1. Kendall Atkinson, Elementary Numerical Analysis, John Wiley, New York, NY, pp. 68-77 (1993). 2. Girolamo Cardano, (translated by T....
Mathematics and Computer Education, 10/01/02 by Osler, Thomas J · More from publication -
An easy introduction to biplex numbers
AN EASY INTRODUCTION TO BIPLEX NUMBERS* 1. INTRODUCTION The subject of this paper, the biplex numbers, is an unusual generalization of the...
Mathematics and Computer Education, 10/01/02 by Bardham, Dipti; Osler, Thomas J · More from publication -
Functions of a spacetime variable
1. INTRODUCTION Like the familiar complex numbers x + iy, spacetime numbers x + jt are a two dimensional extension of the one-dimensional real...
Mathematics and Computer Education, 10/01/02 by Borota, Nicolae A; Osler, Thomas J · More from publication -
How to modify old QBASIC programs to run in visual BASIC
1. INTRODUCTION It is the purpose of this short article to show QuickBASIC (also known as QBASIC, GW-BASIC and IBM BASIC) programmers how to...
Mathematics and Computer Education, 04/01/02 by Bergmann, Seth; Chandrupatla, Tirupathi R; Osler, Thomas J · More from publication -
An unusual view of the ellipse
1. THE ASTRONOMER'S ELLIPSE The eccentric anomaly E is important in astronomy because it helps us find the position of the planet on the...
Mathematics and Computer Education, 10/01/01 by Osler, Thomas J · More from publication -
Variations on Vieta's and Wallis' products for (pi)
1. INTRODUCTION REFERENCES 1. P. Beckmann, A History of Pi, St. Martin's Press, New York, NY (1971). 2. L. Berggren, J. Borwein and P. Borwein,...
Mathematics and Computer Education, 10/01/01 by Osler, Thomas J; Wilhelm, Michael · More from publication -
Rearranging terms of a harmonic-like series
1. INTRODUCTION 3. FINAL REMARKS Theorem (b) from Section 1 promised that our conditionally convergent series (1) could be rearranged so that it...
Mathematics and Computer Education, 04/01/01 by Osler, Thomas J · More from publication -
Fractal moves
1. INTRODUCTION In this paper we show how to animate fractals on the computer screen. Fractal images are by nature very complex. In the classroom,...
Mathematics and Computer Education, 10/01/99 by Osler, Thomas J · More from publication -
Extending the Babylonian algorithm
1. INTRODUCTION The Babylonians devised a remarkable iterative algorithm [2] for the calculation of square roots in about 1500 BCE. This algorithm...
Mathematics and Computer Education, 04/01/99 by Osler, Thomas J · More from publication
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