Shortly after I published the second post about the Mertens conjecture, a reader's comment suggested a new approach to computing Redheffer determinants and the Mertens function. It is now possible to compute a half-million values of the Mertens function in about five hours.... 더 읽어보기 >>

Shortly after I posted Redheffer, Mertens and One-Million Dollars a few days ago, Mathworks' Pat Quillen made an important observation about computing the Mertens function.... 더 읽어보기 >>

I didn't know anything about these topics until a couple of weeks ago. Now I can't stop thinking about them.... 더 읽어보기 >>

The NA-Digest is an electronic newsletter for the numerical analysis and scientific software community. The NA-Digest is one of world's first examples of social networking. The Digest is one of the forces that makes our community a living, viable community.... 더 읽어보기 >>

Our technical support group recently received a request for a tool that would convert IBM System/360 hexadecimal floating point numbers to the IEEE-754 format. I am probably the only one left at MathWorks that actually used IBM mainframe computers. I thought we had seen the last of hexadecimal arithmetic years ago. But, it turns out that the hexadecimal floating point format is alive and well.... 더 읽어보기 >>

The graphics in my post about R^2 were produced by an updated version of a sixty-year old program involving the U.S. census. Originally, the program was based on census data from 1900 to 1960 and sought to predict the population in 1970. The software back then was written in Fortran, the predominate technical programming language a half century ago. I have updated the MATLAB version of the program so that it now uses census data from 1900 to 2020.... 더 읽어보기 >>

The Closest Pair of Points problem is a standard topic in an algorithms course today, but when I taught such a course fifty years ago, the algorithm was not yet known.... 더 읽어보기 >>

I have just returned from the MathWorks company meeting celebrating our 40th Anniversary. In one of the presentations, Jos Martin described how Parallel MATLAB was introduced almost twenty years ago. Here are a few slides from Jos's talk.... 더 읽어보기 >>

Nick Higham passed away last Saturday. Nick was a close friend of mine and a great friend of MATLAB. I will leave it to others to describe his research and teaching, his many honors, and his service to our community, especially SIAM. I have just a few, more personal, comments.... 더 읽어보기 >>

This is post number 300 of Cleve's Corner blog. The first post was on June 6, 2012, which is 600 weeks ago. So, I have averaged one post every two weeks for over a decade. The posts were more frequent in the early days and are less frequent today.... 더 읽어보기 >>