[leemthompo]

Would be curious to know why OP chose to use Mathematica for this experiment?

[yaroslavvb]

Haha, me too. I guess it's a good learning exercise. I've been using Mathematica for 20 years (my name still shows up on https://stackoverflow.com/tags/wolfram-mathematica/topusers), but in a time crunch I would do this in Python.

[gekkostate]

OP here. I enjoy using Mathematica and that was the simple reason for it. Thanks for reading!

[brudgers]

Would be curious

Yes, that exactly is the core principle of Hacker News. It's what makes the article relevant...

Making you curious.

Scratching their own curiosity.