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A Senate Party for your consideration.
Aus. politics below the cut.( Read more... ) -
When will I ever use...?
I get asked to help people with mathematics-related questions a fair bit ( Read more... ) -
Formula De
I've never played this game, though it sounds like a somewhat more interesting version of a pen and paper game I played long ago ( Read more... ) -
More coupon collecting - some playing about
I've been playing about with the asymptotic distribution a bit. ( Read more... ) -
Childrens do learn
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Coupon Collector Problem
David, a gamer friend of long acquaintance, who I originally got to know via INWO (and it's not dmmaus, though they have a fair bit in common), sent me a question.
He's playing a MMORPG and they have some stuff set up for Halloween. He says:
Basically, you click on the in-game doors and you can get a trick or a treat. The treats include special ( Read more... ) -
Nifty puzzle
Via this entry at Reasonable Deviations (actual puzzle posed - and I assume invented - by Pierre Dangauthier):
In a bag, there are all the pieces of a complete squared jigsaw puzzle of size NxN. You are just allowed to pick Q pieces, one at a time, without replacements. After having seen the Q pieces, what is your estimate of N? With which ( Read more... ) -
Dr Karl!
News I missed... Dr Karl Kruszelnicki is running for the Senate.
I heard him this morning going crook about the lie of carbon sequestration (John Howard's reason why we don't need to do anything about CO2 emissions).
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Medicinal purposes
Doctors in Mackay send out for vodka, and administer it nasally.