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How Many Geniuses Are There?
This post originally appeared 15 September 2008. Here is a question I often give on exams: What is the probability that the next child to be born will be a…
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The Probability of Monkeys Typing Shakespeare
This article, which originally appeared 20 May 2010, was inspired by reading Fredwin On Evolution, as wisely suggested by reader Bob Ludwick. At the bottom of Fred's piece, there appears…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
Dutch Book: Or, How to Gamble
This post first appeared sometime before 2012, but I lost the original date due to the hacking. If you are a gambler, you'll be delighted to learn that there is…
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Poem Codes
This post originally ran 2 September 2009. My favorite joke: Two cannibals are eating a clown and one says to the other, "qbrf guvf gnfgr shaal gb lbh?" Ha ha!…
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Merry Federally Recognized Holyday of December 25th That Shall Remain Nameless!
God bless us, everyone! Prayerful thanks to loyal readers who have stuck with us these many years. Peace on earth, goodwill to men.
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Antiprimes
This post originally ran 31 August 2009. Everybody knows that a prime number is one which can only be evenly divided by itself and 1. Thus, for example, 13 is…
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The Mathematics Of Santa Claus’ Present Delivery System
It's the time of year when people begin asking the very pertinent question: How does Santa Claus do it? How does he get all those presents to all those kids…
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The Week In Doom — Scottish Gingerbread Person Edition
Item From the London Times, a quotation from the print edition, 30 November this year, the "arts" section, page 4, on a PR piece about some screen thot who appeared…
