[personal] RE: [Husker] And now Mizzou! (fwd)

[Michael Petersen]

I think the purpose of this thread is to discourage any Mizzou "lurkers" 
from perusing the list and reading about any secret Husker info. I'm quite 
certain they are all gone now.

Can we "change" this topic?

PS I think Solich would have flipped more heads than Callahan.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Skylar Dodds" <Sklarbodds at cox.net>
To: "Husker List" <husker at tssi.com>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [personal] RE: [Husker] And now Mizzou! (fwd)


> Hello Husker Fans,
>
> Wow, Friday evenings at the Nolan residence must be intense!  :)
>
> But to give you credit, I haven't the time nor the patience (internet
> or not) to flip a coin 1000 times.
>
> I'm quite certain that after flip 200 I'd be moving on to something
> else.
>
> -- 
> Go Skers,
> Skylar                            mailto:Sklarbodds at cox.net
>
>>> Well, that all depends on whether the coin is a Nebraska state quarter 
>>> or a Missouri one. Also, who is flipping the coin? Is there wind to 
>>> influence the flip? ;)
>
> MN> I haven't tested any of the state quarters, but I did test the 
> 'sandwich'
> MN> quarter versus a silver quarter some years ago, by doing over 1000 
> coin
> MN> flips with 5 quarters of each type, flipping  onto a solid surface. 
> This
> MN> took me quite a few hours, about 2 1/2 days as I recall, but it was
> MN> before we had the Internet to consume all our spare time.  :-)
>
> MN> My conclusion was that the sandwich quarter was slightly more biased 
> in
> MN> favor of heads than a silver quarter was.  I think it has to do with
> MN> the physics of the surfaces.
>
> MN> BTW, one of my favorite stats-related questions in college was this:
>
> MN> You're given a number of quarters and a roll of tape.  How many 
> quarters
> MN> do you have to tape together in a stack until the odds are roughly
> MN> even that you will get 'heads', 'tails', or 'edge'?
>
> MN> It turns out there is a solution to the problem based on the ratio of 
> the
> MN> diameter of the coin to its thickness, but it is a non-trivial problem 
> in
> MN> mechanical dynamics.
>
> MN> Engineers are weird, another bull-session question we used to debate
> MN> had to do with how hard the Jolly Green Giant would have to push on 
> the
> MN> John Hancock building in Chicago to topple it.  (This one is related 
> to
> MN> the wind strength question that engineers have to consider when 
> analyzing
> MN> the plans for a tall bulding, so it isn't just an 'academic' issue.)
> MN> --
> MN> Mike Nolan
>
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