Puzzles & Games
epub |eng | 2017-01-24 | Author:Edward O. Thorp

Chapter 14 * * * FRONT-RUNNING THE QUANTITATIVE REVOLUTION When Black and Scholes published their formula, the same one I was already using, I knew that to maintain PNP’s trading ...
( Category: Investing April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-06 | Author:Dave Farrar

Chapter Eight That PSG against Lille game hit me hard, and left me with a dilemma. The two clubs were playing again the week after the Cup Final, and surely ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games April 6,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-05-01 | Author:Paula Hawkins [Hawkins, Paula]

Thursday, 20 August LENA It started as a joke. The thing with Mr. Henderson. A game. We’d played it before, with Mr. Friar, the biology teacher, and with Mr. Mackintosh, ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games April 6,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robertta A. Uhl

11. Pull the point up, bringing sides to the center. 12. Crease and flatten out. 13. Turn over and repeat. 14. Fold in the two sides. 15. Turn over and ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games April 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-04 | Author:Raymond M. Smullyan [Smullyan, Raymond M.]

DUAL FORMS Problems 1, 2, and 3 (more generally, Theorems 1, 2, and 3) have their “dual” forms, which are rather curious. 1°. (Dual of Problem 1) Again, a reasoner ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games April 6,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael G. Lafosse & Richard L. Alexander

1. Begin with the butterfly base from step 15 of “A Butterfly for Mr. Makoto Yamaguchi” (page 48). 2. Valley-fold the square corner of each forewing so that the top ...
( Category: Crafts & Hobbies April 6,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:Barry Greenstein [Greenstein, Barry]

Even heads-up, when Player A is a favorite over Player B, and Player B is a favorite over Player C, Player A may not be a favorite over Player C. ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games April 5,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-07-01 | Author:Drew Karpyshyn [Karpyshyn, Drew]

FOURTEEN Kai Leng wasn’t worried about being recognized as he made his way through the twisting thoroughfares of Omega. The last time he had been here his appearance had been ...
( Category: Science Fiction April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-05 | Author:Ian Stewart [Stewart, Ian]

4, 14, 194, 37634, . . . in which each number is the square of the previous one, decreased by 2. It can be proved that the nth Mersenne number ...
( Category: Mathematics April 4,2018 )
epub |pol | 0101-01-01 | Author:Night of the Dragon [Dragon, Night of the]

“Mine,” the drakonid declared. He hefted Rhonin’s creation. “Good balance…” To the other guards, Rask ordered, “To the lower pits. The mistress commands….” They had wanted to slip into the ...
( Category: Fantasy April 4,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-04-04 | Author:Miguel Sicart [Sicart, Miguel]

8 Play in the Era of Computing Machinery What have computers ever done for us? They might have helped develop health care, security, commerce, transportation, and education to an extent ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-04 | Author:Ryan Chapman [Ryan Chapman]

Acknowledgments: To Wynn, Neil, Lia, Michelle, and the entire Chronicle team, thanks for your masterful publishing alchemy, enthusiasm, and infectious joie de vivre. And thanks to Rachel Fershleiser and Kate ...
( Category: Etiquette April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kevin Flynn

NOT EVERY GOVERNOR had a sweepstakes to plan, but every one of them had a World’s Fair exhibit to come up with. That event was to take place in New ...
( Category: Americas April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-24 | Author:Alfred S. Posamentier, Robert Geretschläger, Charles Li & Christian Spreitzer

THE PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM EXTENDED TO THREE DIMENSIONS In the concluding section regarding the Pythagorean theorem, we will take another look at it from a three-dimensional aspect. Imagine cutting a corner ...
( Category: Mathematics April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:John Lloyd [Lloyd, John]

LONG-DISTANCE KILLER Can run at 35 mph for 3 miles. Spotted hyenas are Africa’s dominant predator, responsible for a quarter of all game animals killed. Lions are their only rivals, ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 3,2018 )