I was writing equations in my blog post, and thought about having them properly rendered. It looks like people often use MathJax for this. Looking at mathjax, there’s a format it supports called AsciiMath, which like markdown, looks reasonable both after rendering and as plain text before rendering. Trying it out: ` a+b ` This was basically typed into my hugo markdown file as: \` a+b \` It has a backslash and then backtick at the start and end. Read more

I watched a video by Mathologer about the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio `phi` (aka phi) recently, and found out some things. In the Fibonacci sequence, each number is the sum of the previous two, F(n)=F(n-1)+F(n-2). ` 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21… ` Powers of ` phi ` obey the same rule, the current power is the sum of the previous two powers. That’s why three of them have the same fractional part: Read more