Magic squares connection
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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.
I work for a company called The MathWorks. At the SuperComputing 2012 meeting, I explained to Cleve Moler (our chief scientist, and author of the first version of MATLAB) how he could run a magic squares program he was working on using our Parallel Computing capabilities. He wrote a blog entry about this (http://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/2012/11/26/magic-squares-meet-supercomputing/) describing this, and he referenced a paper by Peter Loly. Peter was told about the blog entry, read it, and then contacted me - because he'd been at university with my father (who has the same unusual name as me) in the 1960s.
Date submitted:Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:43:53 +0000Coincidence ID:6944
