TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The last banana: A thought experiment in probability - Leonardo Barichello
Imagine a game played with two players and two dice: if the biggest number rolled is one, two, three, or four, player 1 wins. If the biggest number rolled is five or six, player 2 wins. Who has the best probability of winning the game?...
Zach Star
How you can solve dice puzzles with polynomials
How you can solve dice puzzles with polynomials
Curated Video
Challenging Probability - How Many Dice Rolls Until You Get A Repeat?
If you roll a die many times, eventually you will get a number that you have already rolled before. What's the expected number of rolls until you get a duplicate number? Video with solution: https://youtu.be/kigFgzK1etw Blog post:...
Crash Course
More Organic Nomenclature Heteroatom Functional Groups - Crash Course Organic Chemistry
Oxygen is pretty dang amazing! Some of the most intensely studied functional groups in organic chemistry have oxygen atoms. In this episode of Crash Course Organic Chemistry, we're building on the last episode's discussion of...
Curated Video
C++ Programming By Example - Coding a Virtual Die – Generating Random Numbers
How do you generate random numbers in C++? • Introduce cppreference for C++ documentation • Understand probability distributions and which one is appropriate for a die • Use the classes available in the C++ standard template library to...
Curated Video
Math Magic Card Trick - Rolling 3 Dice
Have a spectator roll 3 dice. Count out cards equal to the sum of the dice. Then remove the middle value dice. From the smaller deck, count out cards equal to the sum of the remaining two dice and place the rest of the deck on top. Do...
Curated Video
Counter-Intuitive Probability: Loading A Dice Puzzle
A standard dice has the 6 showing with a probability of 1/6, which is the same as every other number. A loaded dice has the 6 showing with 1/2 the probability of the other numbers. What is the probability of rolling a 6? Watch the video...
Curated Video
How Warren Buffett Tried To Trick Bill Gates In A Dice Game
Warren Buffett once challenged Bill Gates to a dice game similar to this one. How would you play the game? Blog post (text explanation) http://wp.me/p6aMk-4ro Source The dice numbers and the story are described at Microsoft Research's...
Curated Video
Counter-Intuitive Probability: The Snake Eyes Riddle
You close your eyes and roll a pair of dice. The casino dealer announces that at least one of the rolls is showing a 1.What is the probability that both dice are showing a 1? Watch the video for the solution. (Snake eyes is a term for...
Curated Video
Dice world
Brian Clegg gives a unique portrait of a startlingly complex cosmos in his lecture, 'Dice world', as part of the Manchester Science Festival 2014. Discover more below... How to toss a coin on its head 10 times in a row? How to make...
Jack Rackam
With Friends Like These | The Life & Times of Humayun
Humayun! The second Mughal emperor who was very nearly the last Mughal emperor. Surrounded on all sides by treacherous traitors, honestly it's astonishing he ever managed to get his empire back, especially when he kept forgiving everyone...
Curated Video
Complete Git Guide: Understand and Master Git and GitHub - Writing a New Git Object with a git hash-object
This video illustrates how to write a new Git object with a git hash-object. This clip is from the chapter "How Git Works Under the Hood" of the series "Complete Git Guide: Understand and Master Git and GitHub".This section explains how...
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Complete Git Guide: Understand and Master Git and GitHub - Exploring Git Objects with the git cat-file Command
This video explores some Git objects with the git cat-file command. This clip is from the chapter "How Git Works Under the Hood" of the series "Complete Git Guide: Understand and Master Git and GitHub".This section explains how to...
Curated Video
Can You Solve The Dice Rolling Drinking Game?
The game starts with 6 empty glasses in a row numbered 1 to 6. You roll a standard die. If the number for the glass is empty, then the glass is filled up. If the number for the glass is full, then you drink that glass. There is a special...
Institute of Art and Ideas
Is randomness in quantum theory an illusion?
God does not play dice with the universe' Einstein famously argued. Yet contemporary physics embeds just such dice playing at the core of its account. Is the universe really unknowable even to itself? Or as Einstein implied is this...
Curated Video
Only 18% Of Mathematicians Solved This Tricky Problem
This puzzle went viral in the discrete mathematics community because so many people got it wrong! You roll a fair dice until you get a 6. What is the expected number of rolls, including the roll of 6, conditioned on the event that all...
Alliterative
More Early English Games: The Endnotes
Some further details about Anglo-Saxon games and some modern gaming terms, related to the knucklebones I discussed in "What was the earliest English word?" https://youtu.be/F5QxjzaL1Wc Images:...
Curated Video
You Need A Smart Strategy To Solve This Math Olympiad Game
Thanks to James M. for this suggestion! You roll a dice up to 3 times, stopping after any roll you wish. You get paid the value of the roll you stop. If you play optimally, what is your expected payout? (more precise wording in video) My...
Domain of Science
The Map of Mathematics
The entire field of mathematics summarised in a single map! This shows how pure mathematics and applied mathematics relate to each other and all of the sub-topics they are made from. If you would like to buy a poster of this map, they...
World Science Festival
The Invisible Reality: The Wonderful Weirdness of the Quantum World
Proposed a century ago to better explain the mind-bending behavior of the smallest constituents of the universe, quantum theory has implications far beyond the atom. This rich set of laws has applications both practical and extraordinary...
TED-Ed
The Last Banana: A Thought Experiment in Probability
Your learners will be surprised by the thought-provoking, counterintuitive puzzle presented in this short video that models a fun, fictional situation in which a game is played with two number cubes to decide which of two people wins a...