Free Photo Think back to ancient leaders who looked to the stars or the flight patterns of birds just to predict the future.

The Weekend Edition Saturday Math Guy, Stanford professor Keith Devlin, has a problem. In fact, he has more than one... which he's happy to share with Scott Simon. What is the probability that in a ...

Life is uncertain. None of us know what is going to happen. We know little of what has happened in the past or is happening now outside our immediate experience. Uncertainty has been called the ...

Studies axioms, counting formulas, conditional probability, independence, random variables, continuous and discrete distribution, expectation, moment generating functions, law of large numbers, ...

Source: Thunder Bay, Canada. Used with permission of Dan Hunt, MD. Coincidences attract our attention because they seem weird, odd, or unlikely. Their improbability stimulates wonder—“what are the ...

From Monopoly to Backgammon to Yahtzee, our first experiences with board games almost always feature sets of six-sided dice. They’re a great way to create some randomness and chaos in a game, but ...

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