That is funny. I have thought that it would be interesting to have a game where some of the rules changed after each quarter. Either randomly, or as kind of a handicapping system to give a badly trailing team a chance. So many things you could alter - the number of downs, how many men allowed on the...
Found a short paper on this - fun approach and there a nice summary below: " This paper is a gem, exhibiting the beauty of mathematical proof while at the same time revealing the mystery behind some deep classical results." Newton’s Shell Theorem via Archimedes’s Hat Box and Single-Variab...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Shell-diag-1.svg/500px-Shell-diag-1.svg.png " A solid, spherically symmetric body can be modeled as an infinite number of concentric , infinitesimally thin spherical shells. If one of these shells can be treated as a point mass, th...
hello friends, and once again happy new year. what is (the name of) a simple yet efficient algorithm/method to enumerate all the combinations of k elements in a set of with a total of n elements? in my use case this will be all combinations of 2 elements among ~1K elements. . apologies if this is ...
Well, sure and subject to change, but I am happy for Apple. From the article: " Apple’s closest rivals are Microsoft , valued at $2.53 trillion at the end of 2021, Google parent company Alphabet , valued at $1.92 trillion, and Amazon , valued at $1.69 trillion." So, the Evil Empire did no...
Oh, Places to Go and Things to Know Congratulations, Wilmotters! Today is your day. Escape to Great Places! Head off and away! You have Pfizer in pocket. Moderna in shoes. You can vax yourself Whenever and wherever you choose. And if you’re not sure, just for good measure You can take J&J now,...
Quadrantids for Quants The Quantrid meteor shower is set to peak on January 2-3 and visible from the Northern hemisphere - a nice way to start the year. 2022 Quadrantid meteor shower to peak January 2-3 - EarthSky December 29 for time and viewing information. bearish: a) It's a perfect split. b) N...
Great! It was fun constructing these puzzles and quizzes. Before I go, here's something in advance for New Year's Eve (no right or wrong answers here, at least not that can be proven yet). December 31, 2021 The Big Picture 1. How old is the Universe? a) It has always been here - there was no beginni...
December 22, 2021 One Million Years BC: An Epochrypha Far back to the lands that time forgot! 1. List these eras in chronological order: Mesozoic, Paleozoic, Cenozoic Most recent era first: Cenozoic Mesozoic Paleozoic 2. Place each set of Periods within the proper era (no tricks here ...