Math

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    Fibonacci’s Chinese Calendar

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    By Ivars Peterson
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    Scheduling Random Walks

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    By Ivars Peterson
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    Scheduling Random Walks

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    By Ivars Peterson
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    Quirks of video poker

    Even with perfect play over a long time, unfavorable odds and limits on how much a gambler may win per machine make playing video poker into a losing game.

    By Ivars Peterson
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    Reassessing an ancient artifact

    The famous Mesopotamian clay tablet known as Plimpton 322 represents an ordered list of worked examples that a teacher would use to prepare a sequence of closely related questions about squares and reciprocals for student exercises.

    By Ivars Peterson
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    Scheduled random walks skirt collisions

    Researchers in theoretical computer science have made progress in settling the question of whether a clairvoyant scheduler can regulate the timing of moves by random walkers on a grid to keep them from ever colliding.

    By Ivars Peterson
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    Folding Maps

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    By Ivars Peterson
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    Folding Maps

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    By Ivars Peterson