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More impressive than using modern tools is that people in WW2 figured this out and modeled it on paper using slide rules.
by coldcode 7y ago
More impressive than using modern tools is that people in WW2 figured this out and modeled it on paper using slide rules.
- dogma1138 7y agoMechanical computers that are designed to solve a single problem aren’t necessarily at a disadvantage, especially when the math isn’t that complex figuring out the variables and all factors was the problem.
- eadan 7y agoIt's actually fairly straightforward to derive the estimators by hand [0]. It's just a bit tedious to do in a blog post. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_uniform_distribution#Estimation_of_maximum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_uniform_distribution#...
- mcenedella 7y agoI’m not sure how much higher math you’d really need to answer the question “how many tanks has the other side produced?” if these were the serial numbers of the captured tanks: [689, 341, 386, 741, 982, 414, 845, 241, 180, 447, 880, 21, 583, 993, 812] it’s tough to see an argument for anything other than: a. about 1,000, or b. 1,000ish but there may be a confounding fact pattern we are unaware of....