Showing posts with label Math. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Math. Show all posts

Thursday, July 05, 2007

How odd

We were playing a card game at home - a variation of slap jack where we call the cards from Ace to King and slap when the card matches the call. I have played this game lots of times and for the first time in my life, the whole deck was dealt and non of the cards matched! So what is the probability of a set of cards that does not match their ordinal position at all? I have to think about calculating that...

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Chinese Fields Medal winner!

I was planning to write up on Yau Shing Tung and this news popped right out. Congrats to this fine young genius!
 
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