I'm Peter Hurford - I'm a 18 year old game designer, ex-blogger, brownie eater, and First Year at Denison University. I'm also something of a thinker. This page contains all of my games and projects, which you can get to by scrolling down (or clicking here). It also contains my entire blog from when I used to regularly blog.
The very long series on making large numbers, a once nearly half-year extensively nerdy obsession of mine continues in this not-so-long-awaited post! Here, we expand the previously defined limit functions to another extreme.
“In a room of 23 people, the chance that there are two people who share the same birthday is 50%. In a room of 75, that chance of overlapping birthdays increases to 99.9%!” How is this possible? The birthday paradox, that’s how! Check it out!
The Ask Peter backlog continues to be cleared out! Today I handle three questions — tackling the ever common problem of putting emoticons / smiles inside parenthetical statements, then I predict how old someone is based on their question, and then I answer about how a positive person can counter others’ pessimism without being annoying.