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Thousandth, and last, post. 9 Feb 2012 | 03:54 pm
This is the last post here at God Plays Dice. It happens to be the thousandth, but I didn't plan that. I'm moving to Wordpress, and to gottwurfelt.wordpress.com. (The obvious subdomain was taken, by ...
Thousandth, and last, post. 9 Feb 2012 | 10:54 am
This is the last post here at God Plays Dice. It happens to be the thousandth, but I didn't plan that. I'm moving to Wordpress, and to gottwurfelt.wordpress.com. (The obvious subdomain was taken, by ...
Solution to distance between random points from a sphere 16 Dec 2011 | 06:26 am
So I asked on Sunday the following question: pick two points on a unit sphere uniformly at random. What is the expected distance between them? Without loss of generality we can fix one of the points ...
Solution to distance between random points from a sphere 16 Dec 2011 | 01:26 am
So I asked on Sunday the following question: pick two points on a unit sphere uniformly at random. What is the expected distance between them? Without loss of generality we can fix one of the points ...
A geometric probability problem 12 Dec 2011 | 09:19 am
Here's a cute problem (from Robert M. Young, Excursions in Calculus, p. 244): "What is the average straight line distance between two points on a sphere of radius 1?" (Answer to follow.) If any of m...
A geometric probability problem 12 Dec 2011 | 04:19 am
Here's a cute problem (from Robert M. Young, Excursions in Calculus, p. 244): "What is the average straight line distance between two points on a sphere of radius 1?" (Answer to follow.) If any of m...
Wind and Mr. Ug 7 Dec 2011 | 06:31 am
You should watch Vi Hart's stop-motion animated story of Wind and Mr. Ug.
Wind and Mr. Ug 7 Dec 2011 | 01:31 am
You should watch Vi Hart's stop-motion animated story of Wind and Mr. Ug.
In which I declare four things which my probability class is not about 17 Nov 2011 | 03:28 pm
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 a kid, and if it comes up heads they don't. They repeat thi...
In which I declare four things which my probability class is not about 17 Nov 2011 | 10:28 am
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 a kid, and if it comes up heads they don't. They repeat thi...
