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Digital dice

0691126984

9780691126982

b526780

Digital dice

[Book]

computational solutions to practical probability problems /

Paul J. Nahin

Princeton :

Princeton University Press,

c2008

1 online resource (xi, 263 p.) :

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Includes bibliographical references and index

The clumsy dishwasher problem -- Will Lil and Bill meet at the malt shop? -- A parallel parking question -- A curious coin-flipping game -- The Gamow-Stern elevator puzzle -- Steve's elevator problem -- The pipe smoker's discovery -- A toilet paper dilemma -- The forgetful burglar problem -- The umbrella quandary -- The case of the missing senators -- How many runners in a marathon? -- A police patrol problem -- Parrondo's paradox -- How long is the wait to get the potato salad? -- The appeals court paradox -- Waiting for buses -- Waiting for stoplights -- Electing emperors and popes -- An optimal stopping problem -- Chain reactions, branching processes, and baby boys -- Appendixes : 1. One way to guess on a test -- 2. An example of variance-reduction in the Monte Carlo method -- 3. Random harmonic sums -- 4. Solving Montmort's problem by recursion -- 5. An illustration of the inclusion-exclusion principle -- 6. Solutions to the spin game -- 7. How to simulate Kelvin's fair coin with a biased coin -- 8. How to simulate an exponential random variable -- 9. Index to author-created MATLAB m-files in the book

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Digital dice.

9780691126982

Computational solutions to practical probability problems

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Probabilities-- Data processing

Probabilities, Problems, exercises, etc

Nahin, Paul J

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