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 ...

Probability is about estimating or calculating how likely or 'probable' something is to happen. The chance of an event happening can be described in words, for example ‘certain’, ‘impossible’ or ...

I HAVE recently 1 been investigating certain probability distributions arising from points possessing one of k colours or characters arranged on a line or in the form of a rectangular lattice. In the ...

From Monopoly to Backgammon to Yahtzee, our first experiences with board games almost always feature sets of six-sided dice. They’re a great way to create some randomness and chaos in a game, but ...