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by anorwell 16y ago
Maybe the clearest way to see it is that the expected number of boys is one (obviously--there's always exactly 1), and the expected number of girls is also one (1/2 + 1/4 + ...) since the prob. of (at least) one girl is 1/2, and the prob. o
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by anorwell 16y ago
It happens for me on nearly the exact same: PHP 5.3.3-1ubuntu9.1 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Oct 15 2010 14:17:04) Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies Th
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PHP 5.3.3 hangs on numeric value 2.2250738585072011e-308(exploringbinary.com)
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by anorwell 16y ago
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1291375...
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by anorwell 16y ago
The theoretical computer science stack exchange has been very successful: http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/ . This suggests it can work.
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by anorwell 16y ago
Here's how to divide by 3: http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~doyle/docs/three/three.pdf
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by anorwell 16y ago
Canadians are very critical of their health system, but this discussion takes place in the context of the existing Canadian system. It's only on comparison to the American system that the Canadian one starts to look good, or even excellent.
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by anorwell 16y ago
A lot is personnel costs, I think. They had at least 70 people in May [1]. Estimating $200,000 per employee per year, that's 14 million. I'm not really sure how accurate $200,000 is, but between benefits, events, office space (in SF), an
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by anorwell 16y ago
The chessboard-domino problem isn't related to hamiltonian paths in bipartite graphs. For a minimal counter-example, the path of length 2 is bipartite and has a hamiltonian path, but has an odd number of vertices so there is clearly no way