Forum: Sports Betting
11-28-2007, 12:43 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 224
Re: Help me understand this weird line
The current MLs are
IND -275/+255 Pinny -268/+256 MB
DAL -285/+265 Pinny -278/+266 MB
which are very close. It looks like you just have a book hanging off-center lines that are protected by...
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Forum: Sports Betting
11-25-2007, 10:19 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 442
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-25-2007, 11:23 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 328
Re: Two Olympiad Problems
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Here is the way that requires neither geometrical ingenuity nor taking second derivatives of trigonemetric functions. (If Tom Cowley does that again his reign here will be short lived.) ...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-23-2007, 05:41 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 378
Re: A Putnam Geometry Problem
I read the question differently (on the third try)- namely what is the smallest alpha, such that for any two squares with total area 1, a rectangle of area alpha can be drawn with those two squares...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-23-2007, 03:38 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 328
Re: Two Olympiad Problems
Given a triangle ABC, area = 1/2AB^2(Sin A)(Sin B)/(Sin C). For any triangle, holding AB and Sin C (the opposite angle) constant, and performing an infinitesimal change in angles A and B has the...
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Forum: Home Poker
11-20-2007, 09:32 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 129
Re: Detecting a form of cheating
I've watched his eyes.. and he noticed really fast when I was looking at him, even when it wasn't a direct stare, and even when I wasn't in the hand. He watches the dealer's hands a lot during the...
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Forum: Home Poker
11-20-2007, 12:53 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 129
Detecting a form of cheating
Several factors (beyond the utterly bizarre play of a number of hands) have made me concerned that a player in a club game is cheating, possibly with dealer help. The player has a strong preference...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-14-2007, 12:53 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 76
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-12-2007, 02:50 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 81
Re: Convergence/Divergence
#2 is extremely convergent, but it's possible to squeeze it to something that meets your property, but doesn't have limit 0. You can squeeze it to (2n-1)^n/(2n)^n, which is "a bunch of numbers all...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-12-2007, 11:24 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 81
Re: Convergence/Divergence
A really simple way to do 1 is to determine the ratio of terms. If each term is successively bigger, the sequence is divergent. So take the term for n+1, (2^(2n+2))/(3^(n+3) and divide that by...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-11-2007, 07:07 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 56
Re: IUPAC Nomenclature: SUCRALOSE
The deoxy is because the OHs that would be there in the sugar (galactose or fructose) aren't because they have been replaced by Cl. Deoxy: De - minus Oxy - Oxygen.
And yeah, the galactose ring...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-11-2007, 04:01 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 56
Re: IUPAC Nomenclature: SUCRALOSE
Assuming you have some carbohydrate knowledge here-
The blue ring would be galactose (if Cl were replaced by OH), hence galactopyranoside. The red ring would be fructose.
In a normal aldose,...
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Forum: Sports Betting
11-10-2007, 04:14 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 162
Re: Cotto Vs Mosley
Even though Mosley has the handspeed and technique edge, he's fundamentally an aggressor. He also isn't the ridiculous combination-punching machine he was a couple of divisions lower. He hasn't...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-09-2007, 03:26 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 45
Re: Sports betting - round robins
You know how to calculate the number of bets for each number of teams, like 6c3 = 20. To figure out how many bets are still live after one team loses, just do the calculation for n-1. So if you...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-08-2007, 02:33 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 62
Re: Olympiad problem with cubes
Everything between 48 and 53 is automatic from my n>=55 solutions. I'm almost positive 54 requires condensing from a > 6x6x6 starting cube (which if true, is probably why the problem is n>=55, since...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-08-2007, 01:20 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 62
Re: Olympiad problem with cubes
<font color="white">It's obvious that a cube can be dissected into n^3 equal cubes. It's also obvious that n^3 of these equal cubes, aligned correctly, can be combined into one cube. Inductively,...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-07-2007, 07:43 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 353
Re: New Thread On Sklansky Extrapolation Question
I didn't think that normal-ish was the only possible distribution. Double-humps are plausible if there is one iffy piece of evidence that has two plausible evaluations, one of which ends up with a...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-07-2007, 02:39 AM
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Replies: 57
Views: 274
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-07-2007, 02:38 AM
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Replies: 57
Views: 274
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-07-2007, 02:19 AM
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Replies: 57
Views: 274
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-07-2007, 02:10 AM
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Replies: 57
Views: 274
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-07-2007, 01:12 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 60
Re: For ChrisV
Agreed. There's a difference between believing something even though evidence to the contrary is available and still believing something after doing a serious evaluation of that evidence.
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-07-2007, 01:07 AM
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Replies: 57
Views: 274
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-07-2007, 12:37 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 60
Re: For ChrisV
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Have you been in a situation where you hear bad things about a person you like and you have a "Oh I cant believe they'd do that" response? Sure you may be able to justify your position...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-06-2007, 11:48 PM
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Replies: 57
Views: 274
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