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Was it George Bernard Shaw who said that England and America are two countries divided by a common language? Some words have very differen...

My maternal grandfather was a coal miner from the North West of England. Unsurprisingly, for a working class man of that era, he played domi...

My previous attempt at a Gregorian Date Calculation Golf routine to calculate the number of days in a month can be found here . However,  th...

Calculating a Gregorian year/month/day triplet from a Rata Die  integer involves finding our temporal position within a number of cycles: ...

So let's convert a Gregorian year/month/day triplet to a serial day number. To make things simple, I'm going to expression serial da...

If you browse the source code of a well-known, much-used library , you'll come across a bit of code which I'll paraphrase below: s...

It's been a while since my last post to this blog, so I thought I'd return to a guilty pleasure of mine: Needless optimizations of d...