John D. Cook posted a story about Hardy, Ramanujan, and Euler and discusses a conjecture in number theory from 1937. Cook says, Euler discovered 635,318,657 = 158^4 + 59^4 = 134^4 + 133^4 and that this was the smallest [integer]known to be the sum of two fourth powers in two
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Open question in 1937...short SAS program today
Access rows or columns of a matrix by names
Did you know that you can index into SAS/IML matrices by using unique strings that you assign via the MATTRIB statement? The MATTRIB statement associates various attributes to a matrix. Usually, these attributes are only used for printing, but you can also use the ROWNAME= and COLNAME= attributes to subset
Ron Cody's 6 helpful tasks for SAS users
Ron Cody’s at it again. It’s like he just can’t help himself; he knows SAS and wants to help others know it too. His new book, Cody's Collection of Popular SAS Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them gathers often-used programming tasks and techniques in one handy volume, allowing users