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Maths in a minute: Conditional probability
Find out why the formula we use to work out conditional probabilities is true!
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The gambler's ruin
A game you're almost certain to lose...
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Maths in a minute: The normal distribution
It's so ubiquitous it's normal!
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Maths in a minute: The gamma distribution
How long do you have to wait for more than one thing to happen?
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Maths in a minute: Probability distributions
They are incredibly useful, but what exactly are they?
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Maths in a minute: The exponential distribution
How long do you have to wait for something to happen?
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Maths in a minute: The Poisson distribution
What's the chance that something happens?
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Maths in a minute: The binomial distribution
Measuring your chance of success.
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Life on the beach with Markov chains
Markov chains are exceptionally useful tools for calculating probabilities, and they might increase your chance of getting to the beach!
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A Pointless return!
New episodes of Pointless, the addictive TV quiz show, return today! Celebrate with John Haigh and some fascinating Pointless maths!
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Maths in a minute: The axioms of probability theory
Take a quick trip to the foundations of probability theory.
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The maths of randomness
Randomness is surprisingly hard to define. Fortunately the mathematical language we use to describe it is beautifully well defined.