Archive for May, 2005
Check out the following link. http://www.peterwebb.co.uk/probability.htm#birthday Converse Probabilities are used to find a solution to “How many people should be gathered in a room together before it is more likely than not that two of them share the same birthday?”. The answer seems incredible, but that has always been the way with probability.
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Are Credit Cards secure?
They are convenient, they are fashionable, but are credit cards really safe? I’m not convinced. Just give thought to this scenario. You go out to dine, have an enjoyable hour and a half, and at the end of it use your credit card to pay, reflecting about the advancements in technology that enable you to […]
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Grey matter is bright!
It’s something we have been living with for years, something that is an integral part of us, yet something whose value and efficiency we seldom appreciate. The biological brain, the most efficient computing and decision making agent in this planet, never ceases to amaze me. So unobtrusively does it go about its work that most […]
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The Straight Bat 