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31.

Nobody’s going to steal your idea (johndcook.com)

171 points

14 years ago

32.

How to make a Smith chart (johndcook.com)

169 points

7 months ago

33.

The Soviet license plate game and Kolmogorov complexity (johndcook.com)

168 points

7 years ago

34.

Every factorial approximates a power (johndcook.com)

164 points

3 years ago

35.

Evaluating a class of infinite sums in closed form (johndcook.com)

160 points

2 years ago

36.

The longer it has taken, the longer it will take (2015) (johndcook.com)

159 points

7 years ago

37.

Experts often end up where they started as beginners (johndcook.com)

159 points

15 years ago

38.

How Thomas Jefferson prepared for meetings (johndcook.com)

159 points

15 years ago

39.

Surprises from numerical linear algebra (2010) (johndcook.com)

155 points

15 years ago

40.

Bicycle skills (johndcook.com)

150 points

14 years ago

41.

Writes large correct programs (2008) (johndcook.com)

148 points

2 years ago

42.

The quadratic formula and low-precision arithmetic (johndcook.com)

147 points

8 years ago

43.

Math library functions that seem unnecessary (johndcook.com)

147 points

16 years ago

44.

Why Mathematica does not simplify sinh(arccosh(x)) (johndcook.com)

144 points

3 months ago

45.

A quiet change to RSA (johndcook.com)

144 points

8 months ago

46.

What is an elliptic curve? (2019) (johndcook.com)

139 points

6 months ago

47.

A triangle whose interior angles sum to zero (johndcook.com)

136 points

6 months ago

48.

Gravitational attraction of stars and cows (johndcook.com)

135 points

8 years ago

49.

Circulant Matrices, Eigenvectors, and the FFT (johndcook.com)

134 points

3 years ago

50.

Don’t invert that matrix (2010) (johndcook.com)

133 points

10 years ago

51.

Ramanujan Factorial Approximation (2012) (johndcook.com)

133 points

4 years ago

52.

Evolution of Random Number Generators (johndcook.com)

131 points

5 years ago

53.

Tofolli gates are all you need (johndcook.com)

129 points

2 months ago

54.

The plumber programmer (johndcook.com)

125 points

15 years ago

55.

Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (2009) (johndcook.com)

123 points

15 years ago

56.

Floating point oddity (johndcook.com)

122 points

7 years ago

57.

The Buenos Aires Constant (johndcook.com)

121 points

a year ago

58.

Python for Data Analysis (johndcook.com)

120 points

14 years ago

59.

How medieval astronomers made trig tables (johndcook.com)

119 points

12 years ago

60.

What is the point of a public key fingerprint? (johndcook.com)

114 points

2 years ago