Thursday, February 7, 2013

SQL Poetry

A distinguished panel of Judges at Red-Gate have decided that the limerick by Robert Tomlin …

Select Substring(Phone,1,3)
From authors as “Area For Me”
Where Contract<>0
and City=’Palo Alto’
Order by Contract,City

..is the winner.
As well as a prize of a book, he gets the Phil Factor ‘Crimes Against Poetry’ award.

Monday, February 4, 2013

Golden Ratio property

I came across a paper I wrote proving a cool pattern I found involving PHI=1.618... : (PHI^n + PHI^(n+1))^(1/(n+2))=PHI, for n>-2, for example: (1.618^2 + 1.618^3)^(1/4)=1.618; I Fracking love math