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Maths in a minute: "R nought" and herd immunity | plus.maths.org
The number of new infections after n generations for R0=2. Two things many of us will have heard about over the last few weeks are the concept of herd immunity...
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Maths in a minute: Complex numbers | plus.maths.org
Solving equations often involves taking square roots of numbers and if you're not careful you might accidentally take a square root of something that's...
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Maths in a minute: Transcendental numbers (and politics) | plus.maths.org
What are transcendental numbers? Transcendental numbers are defined in contrast to algebraic numbers: we say that a number is algebraic if it is the solution...
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Maths in a minute: Probability distributions | plus.maths.org
Probability distributions describe processes that can have more than one outcome which you can't be sure about in advance. An example is rolling a die. There...
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Maths in a minute: Binary numbers | plus.maths.org
Most people are aware of the fact that computers work using strings of 0s and 1s. But how do you write numbers using only those two symbols?
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