Am I Brandon Foltz the statistics YouTuber?
As it happens, I also have a YouTube channel. However I’m probably not the Brandon you’re looking for assuming you found your way here after watching his YouTube channel. Also known as Brandon C Foltz, he has a popular and extensive series of videos on statistics and other mathematics topics. If you have a question […]
A quantitative analysis of Shobu
Last year at PAX Unplugged I was hoping to find a relatively simple board game that would be amenable to simulation and quantitative analysis. I found such a suitable game, called SHŌBU (which I will write as Shobu from here out) published by Smirk & Laughter games. Shobu is a delightfully simple two player board […]
Counting in base [any]
If you’re reading this, you probably learned how to count using your fingers going from one to ten. It is a convenient and intuitive system given that humans generally have 10 fingers. This is the decimal counting system that is also referred to as base ten because it is based on powers of ten (who […]
Forget FOIL, multiply with rectangles!
We’re going to take a quick trip down elementary-high-school-algebra lane, and explore an alternative to the commonly taught method of multiplying two binomials known as FOIL. This is the kind of expression I’m talking about: (x – 2)(x + 6) This expression can be easily simplified using FOIL, provided you remember what the acronym stands […]