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Article Archive: Math
Heads I win | 07/18/20 | | Math | "Imagine that I told you that that couple has two children, and that one of them is a girl. What are the odds that their other child is also a girl?"
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The perfect bet | 08/13/18 | | Math | "From the statisticians forecasting sports scores to the intelligent bots beating human poker players, Adam Kucharski traces the scientific origins of the world's best gambling strategies." [video]
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Estimating the chances | 08/13/18 | | Math | "The rule of three gives a quick and dirty way to estimate these kinds of probabilities. It says that if you've tested N cases and haven't found what you're looking for, a reasonable estimate is that the probability is less than 3/N."
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Kelly coin tossing | 12/04/16 | | Math | "Nothing sounds simpler than winning at such an outrageously rigged game. Yet, when it was played with real money in a controlled experiment, a surprising number of professional investors and finance students somehow managed to go bust." [$]
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