Filed under 'maths'
➠ November 6, 2007
'Cool Cash' card confusion - Manchester Evening News
Apparently, the consumers of lottery scratch cards in the UK aren’t particularly good at maths. Whodvethunkit? “I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I’m not having it.”
➠ January 16, 2006
The Science Creative Quarterly » A GAME THEORETIC APPROACH TO THE TOILET SEAT PROBLEM
Hooray! I’ve been looking for this article for years, but couldn’t remember its name. “I expect that this analysis should settle the toilet seat controversey for once and for all - if John and Marsha are mathematicians.”