Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and… math???
As you can probably tell, I’ve been on a bit of a logic kick this week. And why not? Logic is one of the most useful forms of mathematics there is!
This is part 2 of the Infinite Hotel Paradox, check out part 1 as well →
Today’s problem goes out to a special new member of the family. Welcome to the world my niece, Edison Grace Berry! My…
The following seems like a difficult problem, one you might find in an extra credit section of college statistics exam, but don’t be fooled…
An urn contains 10 balls: 4 red and 6 blue. A second urn contains 16 red balls and an unknown number of blue balls. A single ball is drawn from each urn. The probability that both balls are the same color is 0.44.
Wilfred heard that there is only one whole number between 2 and 200,000,000,000,000 which is a perfect square, a perfect cube, and a fifth power, and has decided to look for it.
So far he has checked out every whole number up to 100,000 and is beginning to…