Tag: math

Probability of You…

What is the probability of your existence? According to this fun blog post, about 1 in 102,685,000! That is apparently the same probability of 2 million people each rolling a trillion-sided dice and landing on the same number! Now that calculation (despite being thoroughly enjoyable to read) is flawed because of a simple bias… What is the “you” (as in… Read more →

Numbers…

I started reading Fermat’s Last Theorem a few days ago and it has by far been the most gripping non-fiction book I have ever read. This is the second book written by Simon Singh that I have picked up. The Code Book(review) was his other book and I loved it too. The book is about a mathematical problem that took… Read more →