librestats

I've been joking for a while now that I was going to start solving project euler problems in LaTeX.  Then today I finally did one.  So let's talk about solving Project Euler problem number 1 (the easy one) using only LaTeX. The problem asks you to sum up all the positive integers below 1000 which are divisible by 3 or 5 (or both).  Doing this in R is easy.  You could efficiently do which Read more >>

Background (probably boring) Several months ago, my boss and I were discussing how he got the data for his software popularity article; the rest of the background discussion pertains to those plots, so I would recommend going over to take a look before continuing on (or just skip to the next section if you're impatient).  Specifically, we were talking about his figures 7 and 11.  Basically he was Read more >>