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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/06/gallons-per-mile.html?showComment=1213994400000
God Plays Dice: Gallons per mile?
Experts find key to saving fuel: say gallons per mile . I'll summarize: d/dx 1/x = -1/x 2 . Research has been done that shows that people be...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/12/
God Plays Dice: December 2008
A random walk through mathematics -- mostly through the random part.
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2011/11/small-sample-sizes-lead-to-high-margins.html?showComment=1322513267598
God Plays Dice: Small sample sizes lead to high margins of error, unemployment version
The ten college majors with the lowest unemployment rates , from yahoo.com. I've heard about this from a friend who majored in astronomy and...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2009/09/economic-impact-of-mathematics.html?showComment=1263636296098
God Plays Dice: Economic impact of mathematics?
Tim Gowers wrote in The Importance of Mathematics : If you were to work out what mathematical research has cost the world in the last 100 ye...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2009/09/economic-impact-of-mathematics.html?showComment=1260012385995
God Plays Dice: Economic impact of mathematics?
Tim Gowers wrote in The Importance of Mathematics : If you were to work out what mathematical research has cost the world in the last 100 ye...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/06/probability-of-making-putt.html?showComment=1213878420000
God Plays Dice: The probability of making a putt
I don't know much about golf. Basically I know the following things: you try to get the ball in the hole; scoring works by counting the nu...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2009/09/counterexamples-in-x.html?showComment=1277394233597
God Plays Dice: Counterexamples in X
Counterexamples in Probability And Statistics (Joseph P. Romano and A. F. Siegel) and Counterexamples in Probability and Real Analysis (Ga...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2011/12/geometric-probability-problem.html?showComment=1323782181577
God Plays Dice: A geometric probability problem
Here's a cute problem (from Robert M. Young, Excursions in Calculus , p. 244): "What is the average straight line distance between two point...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2011/07/
God Plays Dice: July 2011
A random walk through mathematics -- mostly through the random part.
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2007/09/
God Plays Dice: September 2007
A random walk through mathematics -- mostly through the random part.
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/09/doubly-mutilated-chessboard-problem-not.html?showComment=1263122948741
God Plays Dice: Doubly mutilated chessboard problem: not the solution
On Friday I wrote about the mutilated chessboard problem . I'll give the solution now. The reason this problem is usually phrased in terms ...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2007/11/collections-of-images-of-mathematicians.html
God Plays Dice: Collections of images of mathematicians
The Sarong Theorem Archive , which claims to be "the only public repository of sarong-wearing mathematics images". If I had a sarong, and a...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2007/12/best-name-ever-for-talk.html?showComment=1196732820000
God Plays Dice: Best name ever for a talk
"Pretentiousness in analytic number theory", from next week's Mini-conference in arithmetic combinatorics at the Institute for Advanced St...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/12/jean-chretien-is-secretly-mathematician.html?showComment=1229617080000
God Plays Dice: Jean Chretien is secretly a mathematician?
"I don't know. A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof, and when you have a good proof, it's because...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2011/12/geometric-probability-problem.html?showComment=1323718871556
God Plays Dice: A geometric probability problem
Here's a cute problem (from Robert M. Young, Excursions in Calculus , p. 244): "What is the average straight line distance between two point...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/04/quiz-on-probability-from-wall-street.html?showComment=1207936680000
God Plays Dice: A quiz on probability from the Wall Street Journal
A Numbers Guy Quiz on Probability , from (you guessed it!) The Numbers Guy at the Wall Street Journal . The post gives an eight-question q...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2009/04/
God Plays Dice: April 2009
A random walk through mathematics -- mostly through the random part.
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2009/09/
God Plays Dice: September 2009
A random walk through mathematics -- mostly through the random part.
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/09/doubly-mutilated-chessboard-problem-not.html?showComment=1220893200000
God Plays Dice: Doubly mutilated chessboard problem: not the solution
On Friday I wrote about the mutilated chessboard problem . I'll give the solution now. The reason this problem is usually phrased in terms ...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/09/doubly-mutilated-chessboard-problem-not.html?showComment=1266736203410
God Plays Dice: Doubly mutilated chessboard problem: not the solution
On Friday I wrote about the mutilated chessboard problem . I'll give the solution now. The reason this problem is usually phrased in terms ...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/06/when-it-comes-to-oil-addition-is-hard.html?showComment=1213809360000
God Plays Dice: When it comes to oil, addition is hard
Have we underestimated total oil reserves? , from New Scientist (and, it appears, every other source in the British-speaking world). Richar...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2011/12/geometric-probability-problem.html?showComment=1323717775626
God Plays Dice: A geometric probability problem
Here's a cute problem (from Robert M. Young, Excursions in Calculus , p. 244): "What is the average straight line distance between two point...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2010/07/einstein-plays-dice.html?showComment=1278115709332
God Plays Dice: Einstein plays dice
Not only does God throw dice, but Einstein does too , or at least a stencil of him on a wall in the Upper Haight in San Francisco does. Thi...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/09/doubly-mutilated-chessboard-problem-not.html?showComment=1268527869256
God Plays Dice: Doubly mutilated chessboard problem: not the solution
On Friday I wrote about the mutilated chessboard problem . I'll give the solution now. The reason this problem is usually phrased in terms ...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2011/12/geometric-probability-problem.html?showComment=1323637624602
God Plays Dice: A geometric probability problem
Here's a cute problem (from Robert M. Young, Excursions in Calculus , p. 244): "What is the average straight line distance between two point...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2007/11/pattern-avoidance-redux-explaining-part.html
God Plays Dice: Pattern avoidance redux: explaining part of Alon's conjecture
Not long ago I wrote a post about pattern avoidance , in which I mentioned the following conjecture of Noga Alon: Conjecture (Alon) : The th...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2011/12/geometric-probability-problem.html
God Plays Dice: A geometric probability problem
Here's a cute problem (from Robert M. Young, Excursions in Calculus , p. 244): "What is the average straight line distance between two point...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/09/first-number-not-in-google.html
God Plays Dice: First number not in Google?
Walking Randomly asks: what's the smallest positive integer that gives no Google hits? I don't know exactly, but it's in the high eight dig...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2010/01/orthogonal-at-supreme-court.html
God Plays Dice: "Orthogonal" at the Supreme Court
Orin Kerr at the Volokh Conspiracy points to arguments in a U. S. Supreme Court case yesterday which used the word "orthogonal" in the tec...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/09/doubly-mutilated-chessboard-problem-not.html?showComment=1271015651126
God Plays Dice: Doubly mutilated chessboard problem: not the solution
On Friday I wrote about the mutilated chessboard problem . I'll give the solution now. The reason this problem is usually phrased in terms ...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2007/12/scaling-arguments.html?showComment=1198175760000
God Plays Dice: Scaling arguments
There's a classic argument, supposedly due to Galileo, for why mice and elephants are shaped differently, and there are no organisms that ha...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2009/02/latex-equation-labels.html?showComment=1235684400000
God Plays Dice: LaTeX equation labels
When writing a paper in LaTeX, you often want to put a numerical label on a displayed equation, say the number (1). So you write some code ...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/04/mathifying-gore-lieberman-2000.html?showComment=1208871420000
God Plays Dice: Mathifying Gore-Lieberman 2000
Gore-Lieberman: A Hyphen Apart? Try Poles , from today's New York Times, by John M. Broder. The article points out that since Al Gore and J...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/09/doubly-mutilated-chessboard-problem-not.html?showComment=1271896013394
God Plays Dice: Doubly mutilated chessboard problem: not the solution
On Friday I wrote about the mutilated chessboard problem . I'll give the solution now. The reason this problem is usually phrased in terms ...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/12/on-translation-of-games.html
God Plays Dice: On translation of games
At Language Log recent discussion has gone on about how you can translate from one language to another, but you can't translate from one ga...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/12/you-cant-say-youre-liar.html
God Plays Dice: You can't say you're a liar
From Family Guy : "Chris, everything I say is a lie. Except that. And that. And that. And that. And that. And that. And that. And that."
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/09/doubly-mutilated-chessboard-problem-not.html?showComment=1267038096263
God Plays Dice: Doubly mutilated chessboard problem: not the solution
On Friday I wrote about the mutilated chessboard problem . I'll give the solution now. The reason this problem is usually phrased in terms ...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/09/doubly-mutilated-chessboard-problem-not.html?showComment=1269650896152
God Plays Dice: Doubly mutilated chessboard problem: not the solution
On Friday I wrote about the mutilated chessboard problem . I'll give the solution now. The reason this problem is usually phrased in terms ...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2011/12/geometric-probability-problem.html?showComment=1323941429908
God Plays Dice: A geometric probability problem
Here's a cute problem (from Robert M. Young, Excursions in Calculus , p. 244): "What is the average straight line distance between two point...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2011/11/111111.html?showComment=1321603218604
God Plays Dice: 11/11/11
You may have heard that it's 11/11/11. (Or, if you live in the UK, 11/11/11.) When I was growing up, I'd get confused and think that World ...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/07/five-miles-hour-30-cents-gallon.html?showComment=1216680660000
God Plays Dice: Five miles an hour = 30 cents a gallon?
"Every five miles an hour faster costs you an extra 30 cents a gallon." From yesterday's New York Times , among others. This is often ment...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2011/12/solution-to-distance-between-random.html?showComment=1323970123201
God Plays Dice: Solution to distance between random points from a sphere
So I asked on Sunday the following question: pick two points on a unit sphere uniformly at random. What is the expected distance between th...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/09/doubly-mutilated-chessboard-problem-not.html?showComment=1268459802011
God Plays Dice: Doubly mutilated chessboard problem: not the solution
On Friday I wrote about the mutilated chessboard problem . I'll give the solution now. The reason this problem is usually phrased in terms ...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2011/12/geometric-probability-problem.html?showComment=1323636813292
God Plays Dice: A geometric probability problem
Here's a cute problem (from Robert M. Young, Excursions in Calculus , p. 244): "What is the average straight line distance between two point...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/04/smales-problems.html
God Plays Dice: Smale's problems
A lot of people refer to the Clay Mathematics Institute's seven "Millennium Prize Problems" as an analogue of Hilbert's problems for the 21s...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/09/doubly-mutilated-chessboard-problem-not.html?showComment=1267033394390
God Plays Dice: Doubly mutilated chessboard problem: not the solution
On Friday I wrote about the mutilated chessboard problem . I'll give the solution now. The reason this problem is usually phrased in terms ...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2007/11/tenth-dimension.html
God Plays Dice: The "tenth dimension"
Imagining the tenth dimension , by Rob Braynton. The place where I originally read about this link thought it was kind of cringeworthy, but...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/09/doubly-mutilated-chessboard-problem-not.html?showComment=1269500944573
God Plays Dice: Doubly mutilated chessboard problem: not the solution
On Friday I wrote about the mutilated chessboard problem . I'll give the solution now. The reason this problem is usually phrased in terms ...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/09/doubly-mutilated-chessboard-problem-not.html?showComment=1267177657740
God Plays Dice: Doubly mutilated chessboard problem: not the solution
On Friday I wrote about the mutilated chessboard problem . I'll give the solution now. The reason this problem is usually phrased in terms ...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2011/12/solution-to-distance-between-random.html?showComment=1323999441486
God Plays Dice: Solution to distance between random points from a sphere
So I asked on Sunday the following question: pick two points on a unit sphere uniformly at random. What is the expected distance between th...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2011/12/solution-to-distance-between-random.html?showComment=1323968532114
God Plays Dice: Solution to distance between random points from a sphere
So I asked on Sunday the following question: pick two points on a unit sphere uniformly at random. What is the expected distance between th...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2007/07/
God Plays Dice: July 2007
A random walk through mathematics -- mostly through the random part.
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2011/12/solution-to-distance-between-random.html?showComment=1323968641625
God Plays Dice: Solution to distance between random points from a sphere
So I asked on Sunday the following question: pick two points on a unit sphere uniformly at random. What is the expected distance between th...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2011/12/geometric-probability-problem.html?showComment=1323716112273
God Plays Dice: A geometric probability problem
Here's a cute problem (from Robert M. Young, Excursions in Calculus , p. 244): "What is the average straight line distance between two point...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/09/doubly-mutilated-chessboard-problem-not.html?showComment=1264586089455
God Plays Dice: Doubly mutilated chessboard problem: not the solution
On Friday I wrote about the mutilated chessboard problem . I'll give the solution now. The reason this problem is usually phrased in terms ...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2011/12/geometric-probability-problem.html?showComment=1324275003504
God Plays Dice: A geometric probability problem
Here's a cute problem (from Robert M. Young, Excursions in Calculus , p. 244): "What is the average straight line distance between two point...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/09/doubly-mutilated-chessboard-problem-not.html?showComment=1265168557831
God Plays Dice: Doubly mutilated chessboard problem: not the solution
On Friday I wrote about the mutilated chessboard problem . I'll give the solution now. The reason this problem is usually phrased in terms ...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/09/doubly-mutilated-chessboard-problem-not.html?showComment=1262527070140
God Plays Dice: Doubly mutilated chessboard problem: not the solution
On Friday I wrote about the mutilated chessboard problem . I'll give the solution now. The reason this problem is usually phrased in terms ...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/04/dimensionally-inconsistent-spam.html
God Plays Dice: Dimensionally inconsistent(?) spam
Received at my Penn e-mail address today: spam with the subject line "Increase girth and inches in one easy step!" Presumably "inches" means...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/09/doubly-mutilated-chessboard-problem-not.html?showComment=1269822329143
God Plays Dice: Doubly mutilated chessboard problem: not the solution
On Friday I wrote about the mutilated chessboard problem . I'll give the solution now. The reason this problem is usually phrased in terms ...
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/
God Plays Dice
A random walk through mathematics -- mostly through the random part.
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https://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2011/11/in-which-i-declare-four-things-which-my.html?showComment=1321538687167
God Plays Dice: In which I declare four things which my probability class is not about
In class today, I said approximately this: So people decide whether to have children by flipping a coin, and if it comes up tails they have ...