Recent content by k5.user

scripting languages will win fast points because you spend less time writing/re-writing how to do simple things like open and parse an input file.. (sure it's easy in C++, but how *fast* can you do it ? With untyped scripting languages, even faster..)

define "does the same thing as" .. There's always Google's Sketch-up, surprised that hasn't been mentioned.. http://sketchup.google.com/ and writeup http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SketchUp

I understand half-lives, how various atoms decay through the various types of emissions (alpha, beta, gamma, etc). It's easy to do the math (or read the decay chain) for various things to see what the end-stable result if (eg U-238 and 235 decay to a thorium isotope, eventually to lead)...