Here are 10 of my most popular posts this year, arranged as pairs of posts in different areas.AstronomyPlanets evenly spaced on a log scaleGravity, stars, and cowsProgrammingViability of unpopular programming languagesCurrying in various contextsComputer arithmeticThe quadratic formula in low-precision arithmeticEight-bit floating pointMathComputing SVD and pseudoinverseSquared digit sumStatisticsTwo-sample t-test and robustnessSimulating identification by zip, sex, and birthdate. More details