I resumed my code katas – this time, I’m using Erlang to solve the problem:
By listing the first six prime numbers: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13, we can see that the 6th prime is 13.
What is the 10001st prime number?
Code Kata: Project Euler #7, Finding Primes
Posted by md
on September 08, 2008
FreeRTOS for ATMega644 1
Posted by md
on August 10, 2008
FreeRTOS is an open-source realtime operating system for microcontrollers. The ATMega644 of ATMEL provides 64KB of flash program memory in a DIY-friendly 40-pin PDIP package. Read on for how to combine both to my new software development platform.
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Generating random numbers from any distribution
Posted by md
on July 29, 2008
At work I needed to generate random numbers following a combination of two gaussian distributions – which gave me some headache until someone pointed me to using a Monte Carlo approach. Here’s how.