God Plays Dice
A random walk through mathematics -- mostly through the random part.
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New York City
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13 August 2007
Life expectancy, walking, and that giant city a hundred miles north of me.
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Why New Yorkers Last Longer , from New York magazine. (Thanks to Jess Haralson .) The article mentions how life expectancy is calculated, a...
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04 August 2007
geographical random walks
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Let's say you have a map of the streets in an area. Could you guess, from looking at that map, which intersections the locals consider ...
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16 July 2007
You're paying for the bottle, not the water
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A couple weeks ago I came across a suspicious-sounding claim that New York City tap water costs 24 cents a gallon ; the correct figure is 0....
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