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  1. Math

    Football’s Overtime Bias

    The coin toss appears to play a significant role in deciding the winner in pro football's sudden-death overtime.

    By Ivars Peterson
  2. Math

    Squaring Circles

    Cutting a circle into pieces and reassembling the fragments to form a square is a tricky proposition.

    By Ivars Peterson
  3. Math

    Young Gauss

    Mathematical anecdotes don't always tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

    By Ivars Peterson
  4. Math

    A Catalog of Random Bits

    The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

    By Science News
  5. Math

    Randomness, Risk, and Financial Markets

    A novel measure of disorder in a sequence of numbers can provide insights into financial markets.