A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...
Scientific American presents Math Dude by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. Now that we’ve learned how to draw Pascal’s famous triangle and ...
Adrian Blake Morgan’s talent shone early: at age 10, he independently derived the relationship between Pascal’s Triangle and ...