Poka – yoke is a Japanese term for mistake proofing. It is a device used in manufacturing as part the Zero Quality Control method, helping to ensure that build processes are right first time. Shigeo Shingo, an industrial engineer at…
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When asking about probability with multiple dice, the key things to remember are that there are multiple dice and that the roll of each die is independent of the others. That is, what you roll with one die has no…
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Everyone knows there is some form of probability involved with card games but most do not know the actual probability or how it relates to the game. To fully understand how probability affects certain situations in games we must know…
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Statistics and probability are related fields in mathematics, but the nature of the relationship is a little tricky. Statistics is used to mean several things, including the collection of data, which is part of descriptive statistics. But the part of…
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Human beings seem to have a natural instinct for gaming and gambling. The Egyptians were playing a board game called Senet over 5000 years ago, and it’s likely that simpler games preceded this. Our minds seem to be programmed to…
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In math, probability is the study of the likelihood of an event occurring. If you flip a coin, what is the probability that the coin will land on heads? Probability of this event occurring is expressed either as a fraction…
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Rational numbers can be expressed as the ratio of two integers. Irrational numbers are the opposite—they cannot be expressed as the ratio of two integers. Rational numbers and irrational numbers are called the real numbers. The complex numbers are the real numbers…
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Finding the Area of a Circle The easiest way to find the area of a circle is to draw a circle on graph paper. Then count the number of squares or grids inside the circle. This method requires drawing the…
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Basics of set theory, part 1: lists, sets, universal set, zero set and elements of a set Set theory is the base of modern mathematics. It has been developed by Cantor in the 19th century. Later Bertrand Russell and Whitehead,…
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In collecting data, people always want to know how to best describe the data. The first technique often used is to calculate a mean, median, and mode, three statistics that do provide description of the central tendency of the data….
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