The powerball lottery in the USA has jackpotted to a first prize of $1.3 billion, which is just a silly amount of money.
[Read More]SimplyStats Thanksgiving Puzzle
I owe a lot to Jeff Leek and Roger Peng for their great Coursera courses, in which I learned to program in R.
[Read More]What are the odds?
[ Trigger warning: this post contains maths. Please don’t be afraid, it probably won’t bite. ]
After posting this photo of our lottery ticket to Facebook
I thought more and more about random-event probabilities.
[Read More]Project Euler Q5 :: Smallest multiple
Explanation. Standard caveat: don’t look here if you are trying to do these yourself.
[Read More]Project Euler Q4 :: Largest palindrome product
Explanation. Standard caveat: don’t look here if you are trying to do these yourself.
[Read More]Project Euler Q3 :: Largest prime factor
Explanation. Standard caveat: don’t look here if you are trying to do these yourself.
[Read More]Project Euler Q2 :: Even Fibonacci numbers
Explanation. Standard caveat: don’t look here if you are trying to do these yourself.
[Read More]Project Euler Q1 :: Multiples of 3 and 5
Explanation. Standard caveat: don’t look here if you are trying to do these yourself.
[Read More]Project Euler
As a means of honing my R programming skills, I’ve decided to tackle the Project Euler questions exclusively using my new favourite programming language. Besides, it seems that R can do just about everything; surely it can handle some programming games. If I get the time, I’ll add updates in other languages as I build my knowledge of them.
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