In 1867, French mathematician Pierre Ossian Bonnet proved something that seemed like common sense: if you know how far apart ...

Convex geometry and point set configurations form a pivotal area of research in computational geometry, where the primary focus is the study of convex sets and the intricate arrangements of points in ...

Recently Colin Walls had an article on this site about floating point math. Once it was common for embedded engineers to scoff at floats; many have told me they have no place in this space. That’s ...

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