Games of chance
Games of chance hold an honored place in probability theory, because of their conceptual clarity and because of their fundamental influence on the early deve...
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Probability theory
Probability theory is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability.
You learn by doing and by falling over
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”
Birthday problem
The birthday problem or birthday paradox concerns the probability that, in a set of n randomly chosen people, some pair of them will have the same birthday.
Hash tables, solving collisions
Hash collisions are practically unavoidable when hashing a random subset of a large set of possible keys. For example, if 2,450 keys are hashed into a millio...