Hey Chris, Would you consider making those tiles with slightly rounded corners? Like the shape of the normal stickers? My skin gets caught and it bends the...
Because this tournament will bring in a different crowd than those who go to the normal Caltech competitions, we will probably make it official pending...
Hey Tyson, In order to round the corners I'd need to make a new "die" to stamp them. I went with the square corners as it was half the cost of the die with...
Haha, I think they might be. It's not a big deal. I just wasn't sure on your process of making tiles so if it's that difficult, then it's definitely not...
Thanks a lot for the tiles, I like them a lot! I feel like I can be more aggressive while cubing, not having to worry about damaging the stickers. And the...
So the Caltech Rubik's Cube Club has been invited to the Orange County Fair! http://www.ocfair.com/ The fair is going to be around for most of the summer in...
Due to the conflicting times with the NY. Rubiks Tourney, the SoCal will not be able to work out. Thanks for the interest; and sorry for any inconvenience...
Hey Everyone, You should go to New York and you should grab the same flight as all of us: Departing Flight From Burbank, CA (BUR) to New York, NY (JFK) Friday,...
im sure their will be amuzed. most people dont even know it can be done under a minute. i had a teacher at an assembly ask about my megaminx. she said that her...
i really want to get the 2nd generation of stackmat because u can carry the timer itself everywhere. anyone every try to separate the mat and the timer for...
Hey People, Please... please please please try to go to this tournament in Dallas! If you live in Texas, get your friends to go as well. It would be an ...
He is the professor for Math 2a - Probability and Statistics, a core requirements class. We've all taken his class. Pretty funny guy. Leyan ... modelling for...
Hi Leyan, The way that math is presented in NUMB3RS is very very good. I think that there's a beginning there for some new graphical presentation of...
... [snip] Thanks Tyson. On the May 13, 2005 episode of "NUMB3RS" television show, the Monty Hall problem was given with the wrong answer. I didn't tape the...
You are incorrect in counting four cases. There can simply only be 3 cases: Constestant chooses A Constestant chooses B Constestant chooses C You cannot say...
Yeah, the answer is 2/3. 1/2 is the most common wrong answer and actually, most people say 1/2 at first. If you switch, you win if you choose the wrong door....
Hi Gustav and Tyson, Thanks guys. I understand your reasoning. Our contestant arrives at the second decision already right once and wrong twice from the first...
Hi, David The problem you are describing now, with a second person entering after one incorrect door was opened, is specifically not the same problem as the...
David, As Mark says, you describe two different problems. Below is the links to computer simulations of the problem. Give them a try a 100 times or so (maybe...
Possibly, what's going on is that David is interpreting the problem differently than we are. Here is the text of the problem. David, let me know if you agree...
I just read the exact wording of the problem as presented by David in his first e-mail. Find a friend and try out the game show. With about 50 trials, you...
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