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Saturday, February 18, 2023

Tangent-Asymptote triangle of a Hyperbola, Part 1

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While exploring a different area of math, I came across the fact that a tangential segment of a hyperbola between the asymptotes is bisected...
Friday, February 3, 2023

An Inversion problem from PiMuEpsilon

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Often times in math, a given problem can be solved in multiple ways using algebra, geometry, calculus etc. and we try to find the shortest p...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

Expected area of Routh's triangle

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Hi everyone! Wish you a very happy New Year! Now onto my first post of the year... I recently came up a problem in Geometric probability whi...
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Minimum of an Exponential random variable - First arrival times

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Let $T$ be an exponential random variable with parameter $\lambda$. In this post, we are going to find the expected value of $\text{min}(T,1...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Asymptotic Probability of not finding a pair

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Consider the problem of finding the probability of not finding a pair (not two consecutive cards of the same rank) from a well shuffled pack...
Sunday, September 25, 2022

Sunrise Problem - With Replacement

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The famous Laplace Sunrise problem asks for the probability of the sun rising tomorrow given that it has risen for the past $n$ days. In th...

Expected number of cards drawing two Aces in a row

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Let's say we shuffle a standard 52-card deck and draw cards one by one looking for.consecutive cards that form a pair (two cards with th...
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