(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 ...

In order to get a more accurate estimate of the probability, we would need to look at a greater number of trials. Let’s imagine we have a bag containing two different types of sweet but we do not know ...

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 ...

Scientists are working on an accurate way of calculating the probability of finding alien life elsewhere in the universe. Astrophysicists have developed a theoretical model that could be used to ...

When planning to visit an unfamiliar place on holiday or business, I always call on Google maps to find out how to get there first. Very much the same applies to beginning a start-up company or any ...

A research group has created a new model to calculate the probability of the occurrence of localized clusters caused by novel coronavirus infections. Led by Shingo Iwami at Nagoya University with ...

Honeybees can calculate probability, but it seems they don’t use it the same way we tend to. Andrew Barron at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and his colleagues trained 20 honeybees to ...

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 ...