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- ==New book by Henk Tijms== ...[https://www.crcpress.com/Surprises-in-Probability-Seventeen-Short-Stories/Tijms/p/book/9780367000431 ''Surprises in Probability-Seventeen Short Stories'']. ...19 KB (2,763 words) - 15:48, 10 September 2018
- Henk Tijms Hank Tijms is Professor in Operation Research at the Vrije University in Amsterdam. Th ...31 KB (5,135 words) - 21:36, 5 November 2005
- ..., first you need to figure the likelihood of getting NO matches, says Henk Tijms in his new book "Understanding Probability." Start by multiplying 13,983,81 ...but not the chance of matching SOME 6-number-sequence along the way. Says Tijms: This is basically another version of the classic birthday paradox, where a ...16 KB (2,620 words) - 20:27, 6 June 2006
- ...jms, quoted in: [http://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/03/devil/ Henk Tijms and the devil’s penny], Numberplay blog, ''New York Times'', 3 March 2014 (see more on Tijms' devil's penny puzzle [http://test.causeweb.org/wiki/chance/index.php/Chanc ...37 KB (5,697 words) - 15:30, 14 September 2015
- [http://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/tijms/?_r=0 Henk Tijms: Dropping balls Into bins]<br> Here is the puzzle, as posed by Prof Tijms: ...29 KB (4,327 words) - 00:01, 29 July 2015
- ..., first you need to figure the likelihood of getting NO matches, says Henk Tijms in his new book "Understanding Probability." Start by multiplying 13,983,81 ...but not the chance of matching SOME 6-number-sequence along the way. Says Tijms: This is basically another version of the classic birthday paradox, where a ...24 KB (3,820 words) - 13:57, 24 September 2005
- ..., first you need to figure the likelihood of getting NO matches, says Henk Tijms in his new book "Understanding Probability." Start by multiplying 13,983,81 ...but not the chance of matching SOME 6-number-sequence along the way. Says Tijms: This is basically another version of the classic birthday paradox, where a ...54 KB (8,709 words) - 19:21, 25 February 2007