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Tag Archives: probability
Rob Eastaway’s Dinner Table Problem
An ever so very slightly embroidered recounting of the problem It is party time chez Eastaway as one of the nation’s favourite mathematicians Rob and his wife have invited six people round for dinner. The desserts have been cleared and … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Interweb et al, Maths
Tagged analysis, computing, dinner, Eastaway, Excel, guests, Maths, Monte Carlo, probability, problem, puzzle, random, simulation, VBA
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Words and Numbers 3
A recent tweet, by the author and mathematician Rob Eastaway, requested important non-sporting occurrences of coin tossing. I got a little carried away and, half an hour of internetary later, had found a whole gaggle of stories, mostly very sad … Continue reading
Posted in Interweb et al, Maths, Random Musings
Tagged probability, Rob Eastaway, Twitter
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