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Background I was working through the practice problems found in College Algebra Seventh Edition by Stewart, Redlin, and Watson when I stumbled upon this problem found in 1.4 Exercises, Question 68. The question is stated as: The sum of the squares of two consecutive even integers is 1252. Find the integers. I found this question very enjoyable as: You needed to have a concrete definition of an even integer Solve the equation from your knowledge of quadratic equations Solving the equation We can formally state the question as ...

It’s that time of the year where we can do Advent of Code 2024! Day 1 - Part 1 The Advent of Code 2024 Day 1 Challenge (Part 1) gently introduces the idea of pairing the same ordered elements in two lists. To find out, pair up the numbers and measure how far apart they are. Pair up the smallest number in the left list with the smallest number in the right list, then the second-smallest left number with the second-smallest right number, and so on. ...

Introduction I’ve been learning Rust with the aid of ‘The Rust Book’, and Rustlings. It’s also a good idea to suplement learning by taking on small exercises and projects, so I thought it’d be fun to tackle Cryptopals. Disclaimer: I am no expert in Rust and this will reflect in my code. I’m happy to receive feedback 😄 Starting Out The first Cryptopal challenge is to convert the hex string "49276d206b696c6c696e6720796f757220627261696e206c696b65206120706f69736f6e6f7573206d757368726f6f6d" into the base64 encoded string ...

I initially attempted to follow the setup of mathematics in content management section of Hugo. Not knowing how it worked, I assumed I can copy and paste these configurations straight out of the box, but this did not work. I wanted to run and I wanted to run fast without first understanding the underlying architecture of Hugo In comes a bit of googling and running into this article by Misha Brukman in Writing Math with Hugo. With a bit of copy + paste. Here are the results below. ...

I initially created a small blog using Svelte + Firebase to generate a static website for my blog, however the development effort required to build up a static website caused too much friction. I wanted to create blog posts fast, and found Hugo to support Code blocks with syntax highlighting out of the box. Example Code block: #include<iostream> using namespace std; int main() { cout << "Hello, World" << endl; return 0; } Using math notations using in Markdown using LaTeX or TeX requires some configuration and research, in which I will go into in the the next blog post. ...