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Ehud Friedgut: How many cubes of 2×2×2 fit into a box of size 8×4×3? (TYI 49)
This blog post is kindly written by Ehud Friedgut. My daughter, Shiri, who’s in seventh grade, had the following question in a math exam: How many cubes of 2×2×2 fit into a box of size 8×4×3? Shiri divided the volumes, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alef's corner, Ehud Friedgut, Shiri Friedgut, Test your intuition
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To cheer you up in difficult times 35 combined with Test Your Intuition 48: Alef’s corner – Jazz and Math
Test your intuition: What is the true title of this drawing?
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Test your intuition 47: AGC-GTC-TGC-GTC-TGC-GAC-GATC-? what comes next in the sequence?
Before getting to the main topic of this post, first, Happy New Year 2022 and Merry Christmas to all readers, and second, a quick update: A community blog to discuss open problems in algebraic combinatorics was created. Everybody is invited … Continue reading
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Tagged Oberwolfach, Test your intuition
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Test Your Intuition (46): What is the Reason for Maine’s Huge Influence?
Very quick updates: Corona: Israel is struggling with the pandemic with some successes, some failures, and much debate. Peace: We have peace agreements now with several Arab countries, most recently with Sudan. This is quite stunning. Internal politics: As divided … Continue reading
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Tagged Nate Silver, Test your intuition
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Cheerful Test Your Intuition (#45): Survey About Sisters and Brothers
You survey many many school children and ask each one: Do you have more brothers than sisters? or more sisters than brothers? or the same number? Then you separate the boys’s answers from the girls’s answers Which of the following … Continue reading
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TYI44: “What Then, To Raise an Old Question, is Mathematics?”
“The argument is carried out not in mathematical symbols but in ordinary English, there is no obscure or technical terms. Knowledge of calculus is not presupposed. In fact, one hardly need to know how to count. Yet any mathematician will … Continue reading
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Test your intuition 43: Distribution According to Areas in Top Departments.
In the community of mamathetitians in a certain country there are mamathetitians in two areas: Anabra (fraction p of the mamathetitians) and Algasis (fraction 1-p of mamathetitians.) There are ten universities with 50 faculty members in each mamathetics department … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Open problems, Probability, Test your intuition
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Test Your Intuition 42: How Much do you Gain by Knowing The Game You Play?
There are two players – the row player and the column player and there are two possible zero-sum games described in the picture below. For each of these games the row players has two strategies T (top) and Bottom (B) … Continue reading
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Tagged Michael Maschler, Robert Aumann, Shmuel Zamir, Test your intuition
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TYI 41: How many steps does it take for a simple random walk on the discrete cube to reach the uniform distribution?
Aeiel Yadin’s homepage contains great lecture notes on harmonic functions on groups and on various other topics. I have a lot of things to discuss and to report; exciting developments in the analysis of Boolean functions; much to report on … Continue reading
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Tagged discrete cube, random walk, Test your intuition
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Test Your Intuition 40: What Are We Celebrating on Sept, 28, 2019? (And answer to TYI39.)
Update: We are celebrating 10 years anniversary to Mathoverflow Domotorp got the answer right. congratulations, Domotorp! To all our readers: Shana Tova Umetuka – שנה טובה ומתוקה – Happy and sweet (Jewish) new year.
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