The Maths Thread

[blueish swede]

Not a puzzle but I saw one of Newtons apple tree clones was blown over in the storms.

 

[Millo]

It's estimated that for every 10 people, 1 person will understand binary, and 1 won't.

What about the people who class themselves as non-binary?

 

[hammocity]

Surprised there wasn’t a chart for those odds. Would have saved you all a fair bit of time.

If it was whole numbers eg £1 on 8/11 it was easy as that’s ingrained (1.73) the difficulty was multi bets, eg, say 15.73 at 8/13 running up. There were mathematical tricks to help but as you’re doing it every day you could almost compute some odds mentally quicker than tapping on a calculator, a bit like darts players who know a check out number in a split second

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

If it was whole numbers eg £1 on 8/11 it was easy as that’s ingrained (1.73) the difficulty was multi bets, eg, say 15.73 at 8/13 running up. There were mathematical tricks to help but as you’re doing it every day you could almost compute some odds mentally quicker than tapping on a calculator, a bit like darts players who know a check out number in a split second

True, but you’d have to be a right **** to go into a bookies in the 80s and put £1.63 @ 8/11!

I’d (maybe wrongly) assumed that punters would mostly put whole pounds on at a time. Then you’re chart/1727 times table would sort you out.

 

[hammocity]

True, but you’d have to be a right **** to go into a bookies in the 80s and put £1.63 @ 8/11!

I’d (maybe wrongly) assumed that punters would mostly put whole pounds on at a time. Then you’re chart/1727 times table would sort you out.

It’s not someone putting odd amounts on pal, it’s if someone has say a treble and the first two win and there’s an odd amount running up, there’s multiple bets which combine, doubles, trebles, four folds etc.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I am due to start a distance learning foundation degree in Jan. The second module is Engineering Maths. I did BTEC (L2) maths coming up for 20 years ago now, and I've forgotten most of it. I'm sure it will come back to me, but I'm still a little apprehensive.

I've got this to plough through at some point.

That looks a lot better read than a Dipper or Rag matchday programme.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

It’s not someone putting odd amounts on pal, it’s if someone has say a treble and the first two win and there’s an odd amount running up, there’s multiple bets which combine, doubles, trebles, four folds etc.

There’d be some fractional multiplication going on there

 

[JASR]

For those sick of Wordle posts…

Mathler - A daily math puzzle

www.mathler.com

 

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

I found this website's brief review of the history behind vector calculus quite interesting:

Sequential Math - A brief history of: vector calculus

A comic series covering key concepts and theories in advanced, university-level mathematics

sequentialmath.com

 

[Kompany Car]

I found this website's brief review of the history behind vector calculus quite interesting:

Sequential Math - A brief history of: vector calculus

A comic series covering key concepts and theories in advanced, university-level mathematics

sequentialmath.com

Please god no. I still have nightmares about Curl and Div equations, partial differential equations and Stokes' Theorem.
Very useful for solving all sorts of things in electromagnetics, aerodynamics, smoke propagation, water flow etc but not very nice to use.