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The Collision Periodic Table

The Collision Periodic Table

In 1869, Mendeleev arranged the known elements into a grid. Each element
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Alex Petty
The Collision Spectrum

The Collision Spectrum

The previous paper decomposed the collision invariant into its natural frequencies: Dirichlet
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The Collision Transform

The Collision Transform

The collision invariant assigns a signed integer to every coprime class modulo
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The Collision Invariant

The Collision Invariant

The digit function $\delta(r) = \lfloor br/p \rfloor$ sorts remainders into
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The Three-Tier Theorem

The Three-Tier Theorem

You can assign a number to every positive integer. Not its size,
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The Alignment Limit for All Primes

The Alignment Limit for All Primes

The digit-partitioning primes are the easy ones. Three of them in base
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Digit-Partitioning Primes and the Alignment Formula

Digit-Partitioning Primes and the Alignment Formula

Some primes enforce a kind of total order on the fractions they
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Why the Golden Ratio Selects the Prime Three

Why the Golden Ratio Selects the Prime Three

There is a machine hiding inside long division. You learned it as
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Long Division and Euclid's Lemma

Long Division and Euclid's Lemma

May 2011 Most of us first encountered long division in grade school.
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The Effect of Base on Numeric Fields

The Effect of Base on Numeric Fields

August 2010 A simple investigation into base and modular patterns Today I
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Geometries Hidden in the Number System

Geometries Hidden in the Number System

June 2010 Today I would like to share a way of looking
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Alex Petty
The Golden Ratio

The Golden Ratio

January 2010 The golden ratio, usually written as φ (phi), is one
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Alex Petty
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