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    0 starsmohit | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 24 2007 | cars, environment, fuel economy, math
    18 Is Enough — Sightline Institute

    If you think in gallons per mile, this becomes clear:
    1/15 -1/18 > 1/50 - 1/100

    Quoted: You save more fuel switching from a 15 to 18 mpg car than switching from a 50 to 100 mpg car.

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    0 starsmohit | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 27 2006 | math, linear algebra, survey

    Used this to figure out the weightings of the columns in one of our market research studies.

    Quoted: solves your linear systems, including systems with parameters. This is the main site of WIMS (WWW Interactive Mutlpurpose Server): interactive exercises, online calculators and plotters, mathematical recreation and games

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    0 starsmohit | Shared With: Everyone - May 27 2006 | math, programming, blogs
    Stevey's Blog Rants: Math For Programmers

    While on the topic of math....

    Quoted: Aside from probability and discrete math, there are a few other branches of mathematics that are potentially quite useful to programmers, and they usually don't teach them in school, unless you're a math minor. This list includes:

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    0 starsmohit | Shared With: Everyone - May 27 2006 | math, probability
    St. Petersburg paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Interesting paradox.

    Quoted: How much can you expect to win, on average? With probability 1/2, you win 1 dollar; with probability 1/4 you win 2 dollars; with probability 1/8 you win 4 dollars etc. The expected value is thus [graphic omitted]. This sum diverges to infinity; "on average" you can expect to win an infinite amount of money when playing this game.

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    3 starsmohit | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 12 2006 | math, puzzles
    Damn Interesting » The Birthday Paradox

    Quoted: Assuming that birthdays are evenly distributed throughout the year, if you're sitting in a room with forty people in it, what are the chances that two of those people have the same birthday?

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    3 starsmohit | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 19 2005 | math, fibnacci
    The Mathematical Magic of the Fibonacci Numbers

    Quoted: Fibonacci numbers in mathematics, formulae, Pascal's triangle, a decimal fraction with the Fibonacci numbers. Puzzles and things to do, for schools, teachers, colleges and university level students or just for recreation!

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