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by QuantumCow
Fri Feb 15, 2013 4:32 pm
Forum: Purple General
Topic: Revomaze Competition! 10 X Revomaze Purple Up For Grabs
Replies: 270
Views: 198733

Re: Revomaze Competition! 10 X Revomaze Purple Up For Grabs

What does all this mean? I am a bad graduate student who has been procrastinating his homework for a good 4 hours or more now, and I have excel spreadsheets and shattered purple dreams to prove it! =P I think you should win, simply because of the amount of time you put in to doing that analysis. :P...
by QuantumCow
Fri Feb 15, 2013 4:39 am
Forum: Purple General
Topic: Revomaze Competition! 10 X Revomaze Purple Up For Grabs
Replies: 270
Views: 198733

Re: Revomaze Competition! 10 X Revomaze Purple Up For Grabs

Attached is a (hard to understand, probably useless without further description) spreadsheet where I calculated how long I would expect the competition to run, under the assumption that there are exactly 12 people with 15 numbers. Since there are more people than this, this can probably be seen as a...
by QuantumCow
Fri Feb 15, 2013 2:09 am
Forum: Purple General
Topic: Revomaze Competition! 10 X Revomaze Purple Up For Grabs
Replies: 270
Views: 198733

Re: Revomaze Competition! 10 X Revomaze Purple Up For Grabs

Here's a statistical question for you. I have seen numerous claims over the years that when picking lottery numbers you should make sure your numbers add up to being near the center of the bellcurve on distribution of what numbers would add up to. That is, it's more likely for randomly distributed ...
by QuantumCow
Fri Feb 15, 2013 2:03 am
Forum: Purple General
Topic: Revomaze Competition! 10 X Revomaze Purple Up For Grabs
Replies: 270
Views: 198733

Re: Revomaze Competition! 10 X Revomaze Purple Up For Grabs

Attached is a monte carlo simulation of 10,000 lottery drawings. For simplicity, it doesn't take into account the fact that you can't redraw the same ball, since this is not a trivial thing to do in excel, as far as I know. This will slightly skew the results down. Next thing to do (which I shouldn'...
by QuantumCow
Fri Feb 15, 2013 1:35 am
Forum: Purple General
Topic: Revomaze Competition! 10 X Revomaze Purple Up For Grabs
Replies: 270
Views: 198733

Re: Revomaze Competition! 10 X Revomaze Purple Up For Grabs

Attached is an excel worksheet for the history of the lottery to figure out some statistics on how you would have done given the lottery results as downloaded from the UK Lottery website. Eventually I'm going to make one that simulates a random lottery so that you can get proper statistics...Keep in...
by QuantumCow
Thu Feb 14, 2013 11:53 pm
Forum: Purple General
Topic: Revomaze Competition! 10 X Revomaze Purple Up For Grabs
Replies: 270
Views: 198733

Re: Revomaze Competition! 10 X Revomaze Purple Up For Grabs

By the way, I have 10 numbers. So my only hope is that there are less than 10 people with more than 10 numbers. One interesting fact is that ordinarily, every number would be equal to every other number, in terms of winning, however, people will likely choose their numbers non randomly. Personally, ...
by QuantumCow
Thu Feb 14, 2013 11:43 pm
Forum: Purple General
Topic: Revomaze Competition! 10 X Revomaze Purple Up For Grabs
Replies: 270
Views: 198733

Re: Revomaze Competition! 10 X Revomaze Purple Up For Grabs

ps... hopefully someone out there in Revoland is a real statistician and can referee my numbers Actually I calculate the odds are much larger. There are 49 balls, and 6 numbers drawn. The calculation is easier if you calculate what the probability is that you will get 0 numbers, and then subtract f...
by QuantumCow
Thu Feb 07, 2013 6:27 pm
Forum: Titanium General
Topic: Hollow or solid cores ?
Replies: 9
Views: 10475

Re: Hollow or solid cores ?

I'm hoping they will be hollow cores. I like the extra functionality of the drawbar, and when I recently got a copy of the green v2 because I couldn't wait for the CE to get sent, I found it a little dissapointing. Especially since it tries to emulate the look of the drawbar by having a little bump ...
by QuantumCow
Thu Jan 24, 2013 8:37 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: MIT Mystery Hunt / Puzzle Hunts
Replies: 3
Views: 4591

Re: MIT Mystery Hunt / Puzzle Hunts

I have done a puzzle hunt before, but honestly prefer mechanical puzzles, as I am often the slow one on the team and not that great at trivia. I agree usually. My favorite pen and paper puzzles are the ones that use math, so you don't need some obscure knowledge, but these puzzles allow you to use ...
by QuantumCow
Thu Jan 24, 2013 5:28 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: What is your "Holy Grail" of puzzles?
Replies: 43
Views: 36865

Re: What is your "Holy Grail" of puzzles?

This puzzle seems worthy of a holy grail =]

Oh, what I would pay to spend a few days or weeks with this:

http://puzzling-parts.thejuggler.net/?p=1906

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