Tag: frequencies

A while ago, I wrote an article about an interesting problem with an even more interesting story. Back in the 80s, Donald Knuth was asked to write a code that solves this problem: Read a file of text, determine the n most frequently used words, and print out a sorted list of those wor...

The actual definition of vibration is the oscillation or movement of the parts of a fluid or an elastic body back and forth. So take a rubber band, stretch it a little, flick it with your finger, it vibrates. That’s what goes on with everything in the universe, from quarks and ato...