John Allen Paulos's Blog, page 4

JohnAllenPaulos: @snarkyxanf You can flip biased coin twice and count HT as head, TH as tail, and HH and TT as do-overs. Even with biased coin P(HT)=P(TH).

JohnAllenPaulos: @snarkyxanf You can flip biased coin twice and count HT as head, TH as tail, and HH and TT as do-overs. Even with biased coin P(HT)=P(TH).

JohnAllenPaulos: Flipping biased coin gives fair result if person first flips fair coin to decide whether to bet biased coin lands H or T.

JohnAllenPaulos: Flipping biased coin gives fair result if person first flips fair coin to decide whether to bet biased coin lands H or T.

JohnAllenPaulos: Supreme Court won't review case of students trying to enter UC from schools using creationist texts. http://bit.ly/biMgh2

JohnAllenPaulos: Supreme Court won't review case of students trying to enter UC from schools using creationist texts. http://bit.ly/biMgh2

JohnAllenPaulos: Christine O'Donnell is so bad, so ignorant she's almost impossible to parody: http://wapo.st/bm5zz3

JohnAllenPaulos: Christine O'Donnell is so bad, so ignorant she's almost impossible to parody: http://wapo.st/bm5zz3

JohnAllenPaulos: @snarkyxanf I guess my complaint is about grambarians (grammar barbarians). ;-)

JohnAllenPaulos: @snarkyxanf I guess my complaint is about grambarians (grammar barbarians). ;-)

JohnAllenPaulos: PoinTless caps Are annoying. "So are unneeded quotation marks." Sentence fragments, bad speling, and cute #hashtags too.

JohnAllenPaulos: PoinTless caps Are annoying. "So are unneeded quotation marks." Sentence fragments, bad speling, and cute #hashtags too.

JohnAllenPaulos: Female GOP politicos (Angle, Palin, McDon. etc) to male Dem politicos: "man up." Imagine uproar if vice versa: "be womanly."

JohnAllenPaulos: Female GOP politicos (Angle, Palin, McDon. etc) to male Dem politicos: "man up." Imagine uproar if vice versa: "be womanly."

JohnAllenPaulos: RT @thinkBIG_blog: "The problem with quotes on Twitter is that you can't always be sure of their authenticity." ~ Abraham Lincoln

JohnAllenPaulos: RT @thinkBIG_blog: "The problem with quotes on Twitter is that you can't always be sure of their authenticity." ~ Abraham Lincoln

JohnAllenPaulos: Mandelbrot set anticipated by 13th century monk? http://bit.ly/b31Uel Would be bigger than the Piltdown-Sokal theorem. ;-)

JohnAllenPaulos: Mandelbrot set anticipated by 13th century monk? http://bit.ly/b31Uel Would be bigger than the Piltdown-Sokal theorem. ;-)

JohnAllenPaulos: DeMorgan->Mandelbrot "Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum."

JohnAllenPaulos: DeMorgan->Mandelbrot "Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum."