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Science News
June 24, 2000 |
Spinning to a Rolling Stop Mathematician H. Keith Moffatt has come up with an explanation of why the wobbling motion of a spinning coin ends so abruptly instead of lingering as the coin keeps on rolling faster.   |
Science News
May 10, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Coins for Making Change Efficiently Is ours the optimal choice of coin values for minimizing the number of coins required to handle typical transactions? Computer scientist Jeffrey Shallit of the University of Waterloo has worked out an answer. What the U.S. needs, he says, is an 18-cent piece. |
Science News
September 28, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Stepping Beyond Fibonacci Numbers Trying variants of a simple mathematical rule that yields interesting results can lead to additional discoveries and curiosities. |
| Wired |
How to Make a Business Card Vanish, Solve a Puzzle, Palm a Coin Make your business card disappear... Push a coin through a table... |
Science News
February 19, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
The Coin in the Cake An International Mathematical Olympiad worked out the probability of cutting through a coin placed in a cake... Puzzle of the Week... |
Science News
December 23, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
The Coin in the Cake Hiding a coin in a cake offers a lucky slice and a tantalizing math problem. |
Registered Rep.
July 13, 2012
John Kador |
The Puzzler #31 Think you're smart? Try these brainteasers that recruiters use in actual job interviews. |
Science News
May 7, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Coins in a Row Even seemingly simple mathematical games can have unexpected complications. No one has yet worked out an optimal strategy that works for any number of coins. |
Search Engine Watch
June 24, 2009
Tim Ash |
Applying Probability to Landing Page Optimization In the context of LPO, probability can be viewed as simply taking the best guess given the available information. The more information you have, the more accurate your guess will become. |
Entrepreneur
February 2006
Jennifer Pellet |
You Must Be Crazy A new study found that "functional psychopaths" make better investment decisions. The take-away for investors is that those who tend to be emotional may want to leave the management of their investment decisions to a trusted third party. |
AskMen.com
July 1, 2001
Michael Bucci |
Settling Differences With Class To be truly successful, we need to learn how to resolve those little differences that pop up daily... |
The Motley Fool
October 15, 2007
Sham Gad |
The Fallacy of Stock Options Heads, CEOs win big, and tails, they lose nothing. Investors, be careful of businesses that continually issue boatloads of options. |
U.S. CPSC
January 10, 2008 |
Coin Banks Recalled by TJ Promotions Due to Violation of Lead Paint Standard Surface paint on the coin banks contains excessive levels of lead, violating the federal lead paint standard. |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Coinstar's Spare Change Is it just playing around with its acquisition of American Coin Merchandising? |
The Motley Fool
March 10, 2011
Chris Hill |
This Stock Is Weaker Than You Think Our analysts have things to say about Starbucks, Microsoft, and other market matters. |
The Motley Fool
May 28, 2010
James Early |
Why Your Money Might Be Safer in Canada (Fool TV) Our northern neighbor's more conservatively managed economy is significantly less leveraged than our own, and that may translate to less volatility and risk for investors. |
InternetNews
August 3, 2006
Paul Shread |
Traders Brace for Jobs Report With next week's Federal Reserve decision on interest rates a coin toss, investors will be watching Friday's monthly jobs report for clues... Stocks edged higher... Sprint Nextel led the list of decliners...etc. |
Science News
June 30, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Random Home Runs In the current issue of the Journal of Recreational Mathematics, economist Paul M. Sommers of Middlebury College, Vermont, addresses the question of whether top home-run sluggers knock out homers at random or whether they hit in streaks... |
Fast Company
Rebecca Greenfield |
Want Results? Try Punishing Yourself Sometimes we have to do things at work that suck, and during those dark hours, loss aversion might be the only way to make it through. |
Science News
March 4, 2000 |
MathTrek: Losing to Win ...striking new result in game theory is now called Parrondo's paradox... |
PC Magazine
September 21, 2004
Don Labriola |
Coin Collector's Assistant Plus We're hard pressed to find fault with the powerful and easy-to-use Collector's Assistant product line. |
Science News
November 6, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Football's Overtime Bias A mathemetician uses a probability model and data from the 2002 NFL regular season to compare the current overtime rule with the suggested first-to-six rule... Puzzle of the Week... |
Sports Central
March 3, 2010
Brad Oremland |
The Best Way to Fix Overtime An spokesman for the NFL announced that the league could change its overtime format for playoff games, starting next year. |
PC Magazine
December 21, 2005
Neil J. Rubenking |
Multifield Sorting in Access Sort an Access datasheet by two nested criteria. |
