I live in upstate New York near the state capital Albany and within 200 miles of major cities New York and Boston. If you want to contact me please go to my website at glenp.net.
I'm interested in contributing to the Computer science areas, anywhere else I'll just do typos etc.
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Wikipedia is an online hypertext encyclopedia that anyone can contribute to. While it's only a few years old it already has a massive amount of information.
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I've made contributions to the following articles:
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Bitfields, Bitboards, and Beyond Example of bitboards in the Java Language and a discussion of why this optimization works with the Java Virtual Machine (www.OnJava.com publisher: O'Reilly 2005)
By using this system I do NOT give up copyright protection for other works I have written. For example I wrote material for the Wikipedia article on bitboards and I also wrote a copyright article on bitboards for O'Reilly. My Wikipedia donation is under the GFDL However this does NOT imply that I give up any rights on my copyright article or that that article is under any public license.
The Koch Snowflake is very simple fractal compared to the famous Mandelbrot Set. The snowflake article has a program in to generate one in Logo.
From The Article:
The term fractal was coined in 1975 by Benoît Mandelbrot, from the Latin fractus, meaning "broken" or "fractured". Before Mandelbrot coined his term, the common name for such structures (the Koch snowflake, for example) was monster curve.
