He’s an FBI agent. He’s a brilliant mathematician. Together, they fight crime!
I really love this show. It’s great. But now I’m going mad. See. The intros always show a handful of numbers that are relevant to the case. “2 killings, 1 M.O.” or something like that.
S2E13, the numbers are “52 cards, 186,184 combinations, 3 players, 1 tell.”
186,184? wtf. That’s not a number of combinations for cards. That’s 8 * 17 * 37 * 37. There’s no 52s in it. There’s no 13s in it. 37 just doesn’t figure into this.
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From: Linda Seebach
Date: 2011-12-18 11:24:17 -0600
Oh, I know.
I just spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to leave a comment on the blog for the magazine Nature because someone writing about genomes referred to “principle components.” Misspelled “distils” too, that way.
Apparently one cannot leave a comment on an article, since there aren’t any on any article I checked.
(I would have emailed the writer, rather than posting a comment, but one cannot find email addresses either.)
—Seebs’ mom