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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-19-2007, 04:30 AM
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Posted By borisp
Re: Need help conceptualizing the constant \"e\"

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Now please make yourself useful and go over to my thread "Improving On Buffet And Desert Cat" on the Business Forum and explain to DeserstCat that I'm right. (Even though my argument...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-19-2007, 04:07 AM
Replies: 39
Views: 219
Posted By borisp
Re: Need help conceptualizing the constant \"e\"

ugh, yea I misused the term independence. I know nothing about formal statistics and hence I misused the vocabulary. What I really meant was the concept PTB alluded to, which is to observe that there...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-18-2007, 05:48 AM
Replies: 39
Views: 219
Posted By borisp
Re: Need help conceptualizing the constant \"e\"

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Now please make yourself useful and go over to my thread "Improving On Buffet And Desert Cat" on the Business Forum and explain to DeserstCat that I'm right. (Even though my argument...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-18-2007, 03:57 AM
Replies: 39
Views: 219
Posted By borisp
Re: Need help conceptualizing the constant \"e\"

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And for once, I actually agree with Sklansky rigor. Tournament reseating is the perfect way to conceptualize this problem, for those who already have experience with poker...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-18-2007, 03:31 AM
Replies: 39
Views: 219
Posted By borisp
Re: Need help conceptualizing the constant \"e\"

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Here is a cooler problem, imo: show that the expected value of the # of people who get their hat back is 1, independent of n.

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Hmm, how about n(1/n)=1!
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-18-2007, 12:25 AM
Replies: 39
Views: 219
Posted By borisp
Re: Need help conceptualizing the constant \"e\"

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Here is a cooler problem, imo: show that the expected value of the # of people who get their hat back is 1, independent of n.

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How is this cooler? This is...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-18-2007, 12:23 AM
Replies: 39
Views: 219
Posted By borisp
Re: Need help conceptualizing the constant \"e\"

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I don't want to spoil it

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Then why did you post the answer? /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Say \sigma is a permutation of n letters, and V is a vector space of dimension n,...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-17-2007, 11:59 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 219
Posted By borisp
Re: Need help conceptualizing the constant \"e\"

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...The answer is 1/e...

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I think you mean that the answer tends to 1/e as n approaches infinity. Lol mathaments. Btw, wiki thinks that Bernoulli was the first to "discover"...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-17-2007, 06:46 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 219
Posted By borisp
Re: Need help conceptualizing the constant \"e\"

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The more important thing about e concerns making prop bets when poker tournaments redraw

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lololololololololol...etc

Oh, and

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Somebody else must have written...
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