I was preparing for my early morning class back in January 2025 when I received a notice regarding an asteroid called 2024 YR4. It said the probability it could hit Earth was unusually high. As ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Toshi Hirabayashi, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) I was preparing ...

When scientists spot an asteroid whose trajectory might take it close to Earth, they monitor it frequently and calculate the probability that it might collide with our planet.

You need to know how to calculate probability and other basics of sports betting. Master the odds formats, conversions, and how they are displayed on various bookmakers.

Listing or counting all the possible outcomes for two or more combined events enables you to calculate the probability of any particular event occurring. This can be done by listing outcomes ...

More top companies are using tough questions to test job seekers Fermi questions, named after an Italian physicist, are increasingly used by top companies to test the ability of job candidates to ...

Probability theorem gets quantum makeoverWhat would Thomas Bayes think? In 1763, he proposed a new approach to calculate ...

This paper shows how to do discrete probability analysis with the new BA 11 PLUS Professional financial calculator. Textbooks in Business Finance do an excellent job illustrating how to do basic time ...

In the last installment we discussed combinations and how they may be used to calculate probabilities in Pineapple Open Face Chinese (POFC). Most notably these probabilities are useful when making ...