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Julian M Bucknall
Personal blog · blog.boyet.com/blogprogrammingmath
Julian M Bucknall writes julian m bucknall, a personal blog at blog.boyet.com about programming and math. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Julian M Bucknall's blog for an article on arithmetic that he wrote for PCPlus and posted there; one commenter calls his writing well explained and interesting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The personal website and blog of Julian M Bucknall, in which he discusses algorithms, photography, and anything else that takes his fancy.
What Hacker News says?
Julian Bucknall just posted an article he wrote for PCPlus last year on this very subject. http://blog.boyet.com/blog/pcplus/pcplus-297-arithmetic-with... As usual, well explained and interesting.
Comment linking /blog/pcplus/pcplus-297-arithmetic-with-cards/
on “The answer is 2011. The question can be brute force.”Submitted GoDaddy shared Windows hosting compromised as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYes, exactly. I wrote my comment before I read yours. Repasting it here... I wish there were more books and series like "Language A for language B programmers". Whenever I'm trying to learn a new language, I have to sift through resources and filter out all the fluff which stems from an assumption it is my FIRST programming language and tries to teach me what a for loop is. What's more, one's proficiency in language…
Comment linking /blog/javascriptlessons/?p=5
on “Ask HN: What programming/technical books do you wish existed?”Submitted Beware standards: a JSON story as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript for C# developers: the Module Pattern (part 1) as a story · 1 points
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