"I don't quite have a science tattoo, but I have a math tattoo. That's close enough, right?"Now, for the explanation. This is a formula called the Y Combinator. It is a fixed-point combinator in the ...

Mark sent this picture in, with this explanation: I don’t quite have a science tattoo, but I have a math tattoo. That’s close enough, right? Now, for the explanation. This is a formula called the Y ...

[Editor's note: For an intro to floating-point math, see Tutorial: Floating-point arithmetic on FPGAs. For a comparison of fixed- and floating-point hardware, see Fixed vs. floating point: a ...

To complement the recent science tattoos strutting around the Web, The Loom features a math tat. The tattoo’s canvas, named Mark, explains: “This is a formula called the Y Combinator. It is a ...

Maybe you recognize the Y combinator as one of the fundamental results of recursive procedure theory, a well-known fixed-point combinator in the untyped lambda calculus. Or maybe you just need startup ...