The Pigeonhole Principle, also referred to as the Counting Theorem, is a handy tool for mathematicians, and naturally, computer programmers.
The loose version of this principle says “After placing n pigeons into m compartments, if n is greater than m, you will find that some compartment must contain more than one pigeon.”
Seems obvious, and perhaps it […]

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This isn’t the first time I’ve complained about innumeracy, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. Just to get off on the right foot, let me give the definition of the word from thesite innumeracy.com:
A term meant to convey a person’s inability to make sense of the numbers that run their lives. Innumeracy was […]

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If you’re going to use the web to perform a survey of your customer base, this report on a similar project from American Express should serve as a cautionary tale.

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With the tight security at our nation’s airports, it’s kind of surprising to see a security warning from Windows show up on the Anchorage airport’s flight status screens!

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The world is full of people making miraculous claims for video compression. For example, the hucksters at Euclid Discoveries have been leading their investors on with tales of incredible video compression for years now. No doubt that somebody, someday, might make a quantum leap in video compression, but for the past 25 years it’s […]

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