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Let's take a look at shapes that tile the plane or tessellate the plane that have all the same length sides and congruent angles. These are called regular polygons; it turns out the only regular polyg … read more

Crypto currency is based on public-private key encryption, which is derived from Diffie-Hellman's result. This system has worked because factoring large integers is an NP complete problem...essentiall … read more

It is true that the probability of losing 12+ hands in a row of blackjack is minuscule. However, to win $5000 via $1 per cycle requires a phenomenal number of games 10,000+. With such a large number o … read more

A major 32 million dollar coupon fraud was shut down. How do people make fake coupons? Why do they work? It comes down to two things:1. Make it look visually nice so cashiers will not suspec … read more

Black & Scholes won the Nobel prize in Economics for their work on a non-deterministic stock market option trading model. It used Ito Calculus ( an extension of standard calculus using Brownian mo … read more