Tag
probability
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Jocks vs. Nerds
In a round-robin league, how many wins does it take to guarantee a playoff spot, and how few can still sneak you in?
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When Will This Game End?
As it turns out, the NCAA publishes every overtime game including the number of overtimes. We'll come back to this later, but I decided to ask a more…
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Derangement Can Solve Your Problems
Here is a very fun and surprising result which is not really new, but if you haven't seen it, you really should. The problem looks like this: I had a…
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The Story of Squaring a Triangle
Back in 1998, I overheard my high school math teacher musing to another teacher about the following problem: Given a line segment of unit length, select any…
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Excel Dice Rolling Simulator
Probability distributions have a way of yielding unexpected and counter-intuitive results, so I thought it might be fun and instructive to build a…
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How long will it take to get to Free Parking?
According to the official rules of Monopoly, landing on the Free Parking space results in no action, however, many house rules include some sort of…