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Interesting maths links

January 11th, 2008 by jbaker in Stuff · Year 10 Maths · Year 9 Maths · 2 Comments

Here are two great sites to visit. The Simon Singh site includes a section on code-breaking. http://www.simonsingh.net/

The Clay Mathematics Institute site offers seven prizes of $1million for seven problems … http://www.claymath.org/

You might also like to see this video, which has nothing to do with maths …

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continuity correction

May 25th, 2007 by jbaker in Further Maths · 2 Comments

me and my further maths class are finding the continuity correction for discrete distributions being estimated by the normal distribution rather fiddly to be confident of. anyone got any good ways to understand this?

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