Monthly archives for November, 2019
The Ditherer’s Mean
So you’ve got some numbers, and you want to produce one number that represents their typical value. If you’ve taken a little bit of math or statistics, you might reach for the mean—the arithmetic mean, to be precise. Add the numbers together and divide by the number of numbers you have. Easy enough.
But perhaps you’re a bit of a Chidi, and fu [...]
A Mathematical Companion for Your Yea...

Self-Referential Podcasting
This post originally appeared at scientificamerican.com.
On our most recent episode of My Favorite Theorem, Kevin Knudson and I talked with University of Nebraska mathematician Judy Walker, who works in the field of coding theory. You can find the audio, transcript, and show notes at kpknudson.com.
Walker’s field, coding theory, is about how [...]
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