Sports math

[Joe Kick Ass]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
You're an idiot. The question was put quite clearly outside of an English predilection to continue playing games even after the Australians have beat them (Rugby, cricket, etc)

Don't forget tennis though

And golf

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


That is very odd.

Cricket is very odd, its more arcane than you can possibly imagine.

[Kontiki]

Originally posted by Joe Kick Ass

Don't forget tennis though

Where is this applicable in tennis?

Edit: Outside the Davis Cup, that is.

[reds4ever]

Just answered the question....

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
You are correct.

I'm afraid Dauphin's question ruined my test, though since he is familiar with a sport where the rules of play are different than those I had assumed were universal, it is not his fault.

I missed that.

I'm glad you don't hold me responsible for your lack of knowledge and incorrect assumption.

[Pekka]

I was actually expecting answers such as Daniel's is. It's not really a bad guess, pretty good intuition, just not suitable now.

For example, when talking about cryptography, when you take a single bit away, the protection 'halves' itself, so that's always 50% with every bit. Because it can be either 0 or 1. So, that's why 128bit is considerably better than 127bit one. SO yeah, I figure that was good intuitive answer to say 50%.

[b etor]

well KH, if it makes you feel any better, i fell for your trap.

[MRT144]

That was fun!

just as a point of clarification (Ive not heard it) is X choose Y just a way of saying what you're using to find the binomial co-efficent?

6!/(3!(6!-3!))

right?

[Nacht]

Originally posted by MRT144
That was fun!

just as a point of clarification (Ive not heard it) is X choose Y just a way of saying what you're using to find the binomial co-efficent?

6!/(3!(6!-3!))

right?

Yes