VAR, COVAR and COREL in Actionscript
Someone was asking whether or not it’s possible to call Excel functions from a Flex project because they needed to use VAR, COVAR and COREL. The short answer is, of course, no (at least not to my...
View ArticleBinomial Option Pricing in Actionscript
The binomial option pricing model is one of the simplest pricing models to understand and code. I’m not going to go into an explanation of the model itself, as that would take more time than I’m...
View ArticleBinomial Option Pricing with Pixel Bender
Pixel Bender has been around for a little while now and it’s a very cool idea, promising incredible speed improvements by allowing developers to make the most of multi-core processors and GPUs. It...
View ArticleBinomial Option Pricing with Alchemy
Yet another version of the binomial option pricing algorithm (sorry), but this time I’m using Alchemy! I have to admit to not entirely understanding how Alchemy works, but I understand enough C to...
View ArticleProject Euler [1, 2]
I’ve been aware of Project Euler for a while, but never really looked into it. However, I’ve recently become interested in the idea of doing a short programming workout in the mornings to get my mind...
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I got sidetracked this morning and yesterday, but when I did get back to project Euler I ended up reading around the subject of prime number calculations. My initial solution to the problem used a very...
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This one kept getting shorter and shorter. A palindromic number can be defined in any base, b, as a0b0 + a1b1 + … anbn such that ai = ak-i So, originally, the little bit of code I wrote to test whether...
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Finally, a problem I can do with just pen and paper. I didn’t even need the program in the end, although I did write a brute force method to check my result before I submitted it : static void...
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